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Carol H Tucker
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just another Manic Monday....
Today is the 2nd day of the 9th week, the 27th day of the 2nd month, the 58th day of 2017 [with only 300 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- Anosomia Awareness Day
- Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith) -- second day
- Independence Day: Dominican Republic from Haiti in 1844
- International Polar Bear Day
- Losar
- Museum Advocacy Day
- National Cupcake Day (Canada)
- National Kahlua Day
- National Strawberry Day
- No Brainer Day
- Shrove Monday
- World NGO Day
ON THIS DAY: In 380 Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, issued the Edict of Thessalonica declaring their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity. In 425 the University of Constantinople was founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia. In 907 Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, was enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China. In 1700 the island of New Britain [the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea] was discovered. In 1801, pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington DC was placed under the jurisdiction of the Congress. In 1812 poet Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire. In 1870 the current flag of Japan was first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships. In 1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14. In 1964 the Government of Italy asked for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
Quote of the day:
"When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.”
~ Elizabeth Gilbert, from her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway, The Last American Man
I guess that if we think of life as being “one dazzling moment” even having 52 Mondays this year shouldn’t be a bad thing, neh?
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