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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 4th day of the 43rd week, the 24th day of the 10th month, the 297th day of 2018, and:
- 40 Hour Work Week Day
- Black Thursday
- Food Day
- Hunter's Moon at 11:45 AM EDT -- according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, so called because it occurs when the season for hunting many game animals begins
- Independence Day – Zambia [AKA Northern Rhodesia at that time] from United Kingdom in 1964
- Lung Health Day
- National Bologna Day
- National Crazy Day
- National Good and Plenty Day
- Take Back Your Time Day
- United Nations Day
- Unity Day
- World Development Information Day
- World Polio Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1621 - Eustache Martin baptized; born to Marguerite Langlois, the wife of Abraham Martin, the farmer who gave his name to the Plains of Abraham; First French child born in North America. Québec, Québec
1851 – William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England.
1861 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed, and the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from California to President Abraham Lincoln.
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor [a 63 year old Bay City, Michigan, teacher, a widow and a non-swimmer, accompanied by her pet kitten] becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel -- and survives. Fifteen other people try it [10 survive]
1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge,connecting New York and New Jersey, opens to public traffic.
1945 – Founding of the United Nations with 51 nations joining
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. The flat earthers have been claiming all photos of the earth are doctored ever since.
1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam -- a decision that would cost the US dearly
1957 – The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission.
2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
2003 – The era of supersonic jet travel came to an end as three British Airways Concordes landed at London's Heathrow Airport.
2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
~ Maya Angelou
So I didn’t win the MegaMillions huge cash bonanza. In fact, I didn’t win a dime and am out $6. And I am okay with that. I’ll pack all those dreams up for now and put them away. The one thing that I really wish I could’ve had was knowing that I would never be a financial burden on my family – the rest was just icing on the cake.
And so we all showed up at work this morning and live goes on
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