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...
Radio Commercial Day -- the first radio commercial aired, on WEAF in New York City in 1922
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
Red Wine Day
ON THIS DAY: In 475 the Roman general Orestes forced western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. In1609 Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay. In 1789 William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus. In 1830 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive raced a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroads [the horse won]. In 1845 the first issue of Scientific American magazine was published. In 1859 the Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service was widely disrupted. In 1898 Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" was renamed "Pepsi-Cola". In 1993 the Galileo spacecraft discovered a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
I’m not exactly sure where the time has gone. The weekend just poofed – completely evaporated. I seem to have lost a month of summer somewhere because Labor Day is this coming weekend. And 2017 is 2/3’s gone. And to top if all off?
Well at least it is the last Monday in August and there are only 14 more workaday Mondays left in the year….