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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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Shrove Tuesday
Today is the 3rd day of the 9th week, the 28th day of the 2nd month, the 59th day of 2017 [just think, 16% of the year is gone now as February 2017 fades away…..], and:
- Car Keys and Small Change Day
- Floral Design Day
- International Pancake Day [AKA Fat Tuesday]
- Mardi Gras
- National Chocolate Soufflé Day
- National Public Sleeping Day
- National Science Day
- National Tooth Fairy Day
- Paczki Day
- Pancake Day Race (Between US and England)
- Rare Disease Day
- World Spay Day
ON THIS DAY: In 202 BC the coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han took place thus initiating four centuries of the Han dynasty's rule over China. In 1525 Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés. In 1784 John Wesley chartered the Methodist Church. In 1827 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. In 1874 one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court [100 days and £200,000] ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. In 1885 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. In 1935 DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invented nylon. In 1939 the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. In 1940 basketball was televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick announced to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). In 1954 the first color television sets using the NTSC standard were offered for sale to the general public. In 1959 Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, was launched but fails to achieve orbit. In 1983 the final episode of M*A*S*H aired, with almost 106 million viewers; it still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale. In 1997 GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, struck the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way. In 1998 the first flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in US civilian airspace. In 2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.
Supposedly today is the last splurge before the season of Lent falls upon us at midnight. I have lost count of how many people have told me that since they are giving up sweets they are binging chocolate today. My resolve has to do with increased activity – I have 45 days as I try to make exercise a habit that will last past Easter.
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