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Carol H Tucker
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the day after Easter....
Today is the 2nd day of the 16th week, the 17th day of the 4th month, the 107th day of 2017 [with only 251 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Bat Appreciation Day because they are starting to emerge from hibernation
- Blah Blah Blah Day – supposedly a day to stop procrastinating and get started on those things you should be doing
- Boston Marathon Day
- Dyngus Day – always the day after Easter, it’s basically a Polish pride day and a reason to celebrate that Lent is over
- Easter Monday
- Ellis Island Family History Day – in 1907 the Ellis Island immigration center processed 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
- Independence Day: Syria from France in 1946.
- International Ford Mustang Day
- International Haiku Poetry Day
- Malbec World Day – commemorating the day when the president of Argentina officially made it his mission to transform Argentina's wine industry back in 1853, tasking a French soil expert to bring over new vines. The Malbec grape vines in France were pretty much wiped out by the spread of the Phylloxera Plague in 1863 then an unexpected freeze in 1956.
- National Cheeseball Day
- National Kickball Day
- Nothing Like a Dame Day
- Patriots' Day
- White House Easter Egg Roll – started by Rutherford B Hayes because Congress didn’t want this popular past-time of rolling hard-boiled eggs down a hill on its premises. Just in case you were wondering why in the world the Easter egg roll would be on a workday? Back in the day, we used to get Good Friday and Easter Monday off. In Maryland, especially in banking, Good Friday continued on as a state holiday long after the Feds pointed out that it was as a religious holiday – in fact it is still listed on the state calendar as an official holiday.
- World Hemophilia Day
ON THIS DAY: In 1080 the King of Denmark, Harald III died and was succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized because of his martyrdom and advocacy of the Church. In 1397 Geoffrey Chaucer related The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II -- Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury. In 1521 the trial of Martin Luther over his teachings began during the assembly of the Diet of Worms; initially intimidated, he asked for time to reflect before answering the charges and was given a stay of one day. In 1610 Henrik Hudson set sail on the Discovery to look for the North West Passage; he will discover Hudson Bay and die there. In 1951 the Peak District became the United Kingdom's first National Park. Also in 1951 Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle made his major league debut with the New York Yankees. In 1970 the ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returned to Earth safely. In 1973 FedEx, then known as Federal Express, began operations. In 2014 NASA's Kepler confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
Posting here has been a bit erratic of late as I’ve been going through my semi-annual “why am I blogging” thought process and for the first time, wondering why the internal exercise, which crops up with such regularity. Some of it is the usual inferiority complex stuff [cue John Adam’s singing “does anybody care” from 1776] that asks the rather pertinent question of what I am trying to accomplish by blogging. Some of it is courtesy of Facebook’s On This Day app which has been giving me links to old blog posts – a mixed bag of broken picture links and different levels of writing artistry. And some of it is just dealing with my own personal doldrums – sometimes I just don’t feel very interesting, much less witty, and actually find myself without anything to actually say… .
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