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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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the final Friday in June
Today is the 6th day of the 26th week, the 30th day of the 6th month, the 181st day of 2017, and:
- California Avocado Day
- Drive Your Corvette to Work Day – in 1953 the first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
- Independence Day: Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium in 1960
- Leap Second Time Adjustment Day [if needed]
- National Meteor Watch Day
- NOW (National Organization For Women) Day – it was founded on this day in 1966
- Social Media Day
ON THIS DAY: In 350 Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, was defeated and killed in Rome by troops of the usurper Magnentius. In 1520 Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fought their way out of Tenochtitlan. In 1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope. In 1860 the 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. In 1886 the first transcontinental train trip across Canada departed from Montreal, arriving in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4. In 1905 Albert Einstein sent the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. In 1908 an asteroid exploded above Tunguska in Siberia, leaving 800 square miles of scorched or blown-down trees. In 1937 the world's first emergency telephone number, 999, was introduced in London. In 1968 Pope Paul VI issued the Credo of the People of God. In 1971 the crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft was killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. In 1972 the first leap second was added to the UTC time system. In 1994 the US Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the national championship and banned her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. In 2004 the international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit after a nearly seven-year journey.
Quote of the day:
“ We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched. “
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Kinda like the gap between diagnosis and prognosis, neh?
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