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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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Spring has sprung....
Today is the 2nd day of the 12th week, the 20th day of the 3rd month, the 79th day of 2017 [with only 279 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- Act Happy Day
- Alien Abduction Day
- Atheist Pride Day
- Bahá'í Naw-Rúz (Bahá'í Faith)
- Bed-in For Peace Day
- Bibliomania Day
- French Language Day
- Great American Meatout Day
- Independence Day: Tunisia from France in 1956
- International Astrology Day
- International Day of Happiness
- International Day of Nowruz
- International Earth Day
- National Bock Beer Day
- National Jump Out! Day
- National Kiss Your Fiancé Day
- National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- National Ravioli Day
- National Wellderly Day
- Ostara
- Proposal Day
- Snowman Burning Day
- The First Day of Spring [AKA the vernal equinox] at 6:29 am EDT
- Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
- World Day of Theater for Children
- World Sparrow Day -- they were due to return to San Juan Capistrano yesterday
- World Storytelling Day
ON THIS DAY: In 235 Maximinus Thrax was proclaimed Emperor of Rome. In 1602 the Dutch East India Company was established. In 1616 Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was published.. In 1854 the Republican Party of the United States was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. In 1915 Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity. In 1923 the Arts Club of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States. In 1948 with a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, was shown on CBS and NBC. In 1964 the precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) was established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962. In 1985 Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Also in 1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen began his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research. In2015 a solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occurred on the same day.
However you look at it, Old Man Winter needs to depart at this point….
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