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Carol H Tucker
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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...
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Today is the 5th day of the 30th week, the 28th day of the 7th month, the 210th day of 2016, and: - Buffalo Soldiers Day
- Independence day: [Fiestas Patrias] Peru from Spain in 1821.
- National Chili Dog Day
- National Hamburger Day
- National Milk Chocolate Day
- National Refreshment Day
- World Hepatitis Day
- World Nature Conservation Day
In 1364 troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina, which was immortalized by the Michelangelo painting of the battle. In 1571 La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines was founded by the Spaniards. In 1854 the USS Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy, was commissioned. In 1945 a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building, killing 14 people. In 1996 the remains of a prehistoric man was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
Thinking about Kennewick man and his history, reading about the blue hole found at the bottom of the sea and wondering what could be at the bottom, has me once again reflecting on the fact that the homo sapiens is the only mammal species on earth without any cousins – there are no other humanoid species currently alive. There have been others -- Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo floresiensis all co-existed at one point with cave men [back in the day we used Cro-Magnon to describe these early human versions that didn’t quite look like us] , but they are gone…. Where did they go? Why did they disappear? Wiped out by disease, something that we were naturally immune to, or suffer a bottleneck [whatever the cause] that they could not bounce back from? Killed by us, either through deliberate genocide or just by out competing? Absorbed through interbreeding and intermingling [there are DNA traces]?
Whatever happened, today’s humans are the only child of the evolutionary tree….
Think about it -- how would our history, our culture, our interactions been changed if we had cousins and siblings?
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