Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Today is the 6th day of the 33rd week, the 18th day of the 8th month, the 230th day of 2017, and:
Bad Poetry Day
Birth Control Pills Day -- in 1960 the first contraceptive pill “Enovid” came out in the United States
Helium Discovery Day -- on this day in 1868 French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium.
Mail Order Catalog Day
National Bad Poetry Day
National Badge Ribbon Day
National Fajita Day
National Ice Cream Pie Day
National Men's Grooming Day
National Soft Ice Cream Day
Serendipity Day
ON THIS DAY: In684 Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cemented Umayyad control of Syria at the battle of Marj Rahit. In 1572 the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre married Margaret of Valois in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France. In 1587 Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, became the first English child born in the Americas. In 1590 John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returned from a supply trip to England to find his settlement deserted. In 1612 the trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, began at Lancaster Assizes. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, was burned alive in Loudun, France. In 1783 a huge fireball meteor was seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. In 1838 the Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighed anchor at Hampton Roads. In 1903 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flew his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers. In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage. In 1958 Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita was published in the United States. In 1969 three days and nights of sex, drugs and rock and roll come to a peaceful end as the Woodstock music festival concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
Last night, once again under the darkness, Maryland removed a statue. This time it was from the Maryland State House in Annapolis and the statue of Chief Justice Roger B Taney that was removed had sat there since 1872. Why? Because despite a long and lustrous legal career, both in Maryland and DC, he delivered the Supreme Court majority opinion in 1857 on the Dred Scott case
As I said yesterday, I am ambivalent about the current rush to take down monuments. I am on the “heritage” side of the debate and I never did cotton to revisionist history. On the other hand, the meanings of symbols like that of words changes over time -- what was once acceptable becomes objectionable [I don’t suggest you call any of your gay friends “queer” these days] and what was once vulgar becomes common usage [remember when no one with any pretension to any class at all would say the word f**k?]. The swastika has gone through its own evolution – once a common decoration and a symbol for good fortune, it got hijacked by Hitler and became loathsome. The Confederacy, and the Stars and Bars, have gone from being a symbol of southern history, to part of the 60’s rebellion and motorcycle counter-culture, to a symbol of hatred and repression. I resent that these factions, these loathsome amoral people, have co-opted this heritage, and I genuinely fear that they will end up doing the same thing to religious symbols [the Cross and the Star of David for example] in their fanaticism.
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