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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 4th day of the 3rd week, the 17th day of the 1st month, the 17th day of 2018, and:
- Ben Franklin Day – he was born in Boston in 1706.
- Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day
- Cable Car Day
- Customer Service Day
- Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day
- Hot-Buttered Rum Day
- Judgement Day
- Kid Inventors' Day
- National Bootleggers' Day
- National Hot Heads Chili Day
- Popeye Day -- Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by EC Segar, first appeared in 1929 in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
On this day in ...
1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon, where it has been since 1309 during what came to be called the Avignon Papacy. A total of seven successive popes resided in Avignon and in 1348 Pope Clement VI bought the town from Joanna I of Naples, which then stayed under papal control until the French Revolution.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean; he is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick
1773 – Captain James Cook commands the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston. They got $2.775 million ($28.2 million today) which consisted of $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities. All eleven members of the gang were arrested in 1956, just before the statue of limitations ran out because one member broke down under FBI questioning. Only Only $58,000 was ever recovered.
1977 – Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
1997 – A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing. It is currently set at 2 1/2 minutes to midnight -- this is the first use of a fraction in the time, and the Clock's closest approach to midnight since 1953.
There are things that I could talk about…. News? Workaholics that drag themselves into work when they are running a temperature and it is snowy outside? Planning for a long weekend at the House of the Mouse in Florida? Reflections on losing a beloved pet two years ago? None of these particularly appealed to me, so I turned to the writing prompts
17. Dictionary Definition: Open up a dictionary to a random word. Define what that word means to you.
My first memory of using a dictions stems from 3rd grade – I asked the teacher how to spell “mountain” and she told me to look it up, which considering I didn’t know how to spell it took me quite a while. Well I had to look up a word today – the BBC used the word “tranche” in an article and I couldn’t quite be sure I had the meaning correct without verifying – and who opens a dictionary anymore for that? I opened a browser and typed the word in and got about 47,500,000 results! Not that I looked past the first couple to get the definition; I always somehow doubt the relevance of the search results beyond the first page or two anyway. But as it happens, I DO have an old dictionary lingering on the shelf and I am honestly not certain why. It is a Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary from 1987 [originally published in 1983] and the red cover is pretty faded, the pages are made of very thin paper with notches on the pages [which another search tells me is called an edge index while the individual page notches are called a thumb index, cut-in index or index notch]. Suffice to say I have had this book for a while! There are two sticky papers, but I have no idea why I have the pages “belfries to benefice” marked, or the pages “thimbleful to Thorazine” either. There is a sheet of paper, a printout of a web page titled “World Wide Words” from 2002 tucked between “considerable to construction paper” that defines “consilience” at great length, probably after I had read the book by Edward O Wilson in my quest to understand Knowledge Management and how it related to day-to-day endeavors. My cousin Roger used to read dictionaries for pleasure, and as I paged through this book, I can understand why – there is so much here besides just definitions! From the Explanatory Notes to the Forms of Address [with Salutations], it is a window into a different time. While I enjoyed my trip through the book, I closed the covers and knew that the next time I didn’t know exactly how to spell a word, I would type it into the browser and let GOOGLE guess what I really meant rather than flip the pages of this tomb
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