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 4th day of the 13th week, the 28th day of the 3rd month, the 87th day of 2018, and:
Barnum & Bailey Day
Children's Picture Book Day
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyū
Eat an Eskimo Pie Day – no idea why this wouldn’t be on the 24th of January, because it was on that day in 1922, Christian Kent Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, along with his business partner Russell C. Stover, obtained US patent number 1,404,539 for the "Eskimo Pie" ice cream bar.
National Something On a Stick Day -- couldn’t find whether or not this was the anniversary of Jeff Junham’s hilarious routine on Jack Paar’s Tonight Show or not, but adding “on a steeek” to a comment/description was considered pretty funny back in the day!
Virtual Advocacy Day
Weed Appreciation Day
Whole Grain Sampling Day
On this day in ...
1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
1842 – First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1930 - The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara, respectively.
1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
1963 - The Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds" premiered in New York.
1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 35 mins 00 secs of light-travel time and Voyager 2 is 16 hrs 15 mins 18 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Ah Spring! Hereabouts we don’t often get one as it seems as though the weather goes straight from chilly to hot and kinda skips the balmy days inbetween. March has actually been colder than February was and they have changed the peak bloom estimate for the cherry blossoms a couple of times.
Personally I think we should bring a class-action suit against that stupid rodent for his prognostication on February 2nd.