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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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the merrie month of May
Today is the 2nd day of the 18th week, the 1st day of the 5th month, the 121st day of 2017, and:
- Batman Day
- Beltane
- Couple Appreciation Day
- CSS Reboot DAy
- Executive Coaching Day
- Frequent Flyer Day
- Global Love Day
- International Workers' Day -- commemorating the Haymarket affair, which took place in Chicago, in the US, in 1886.and marked with celebrations, protests, strikes and commemorations around the world.
- Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 Day
- Law Day
- Lemonade Day
- Lei Day
- Loyalty Day -- first observed in 1921 as Americanization Day to counteract the influence of communists; in 1958 Congress declared it a national holiday as "the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom”. and every President is supposed to issue a proclamation about celebrating it
- May Day
- Melanoma Monday
- Mother Goose Day
- National Bubba Day
- National Chocolate Parfait Day
- National Library Legislative Day
- National Purebred Dog Day
- New Homeowners Day
- Phone in Sick Day
- Samhain (Celtic neopagans and Wiccans in the Southern Hemisphere)
- Save the Rhino Day
- School Principals' Day
- Silver Star Service Banner Day
- Stepmother's Day
- Worthy Wage Day
ON THIS DAY: In 475 BC Roman consul Publius Valerius Poplicola celebrated a Roman triumph for his victory over Veii and the Sabines. In 880 the Nea Ekklesia was inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches. In 1753 The Species Plantarum by Linnaeus was published -- the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. In 1759 Josiah Wedgwood founded the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain. In 1786, in Vienna Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro was performed for the first time ((no word if there were wascally wabbits involved)). In 1840 the Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, was issued in the United Kingdom. In 1844 the Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, was established. In 1851 Queen Victoria opened The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London. In 1869 the Folies Bergère opened in Paris. In 1893 the World's Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago. In 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrived in Washington DC. In 1930 the dwarf planet Pluto was officially named. In 1931 the Empire State Building was dedicated in New York City. In 1941 the Orson Welles film "Citizen Kane" premiered in New York. In 1956 the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was made available to the public, and a doctor in Japan reported an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease. In 1962 the first Target discount store opened in Roseville, Minnesota. In 1978 Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, became the first person to reach the North Pole alone. In 1989, the Disney-MGM Studios opened in Orlando Florida In 1999 the body of British climber George Mallory was found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924. In 1999 SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on Nickelodeon after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards.
Ah May Day – memories from elementary school of the Maypole, learning dances to perform, winning goldfish in little plastic bags, getting the first sunburn of the year….. Actually Play Day wasn’t always on the 1st, and we didn’t have it every year, but that is the first thing I think of on this date – we were so happy to have the day in the sun and to be out of the classrooms that were getting so stuffy that time of year. And so many goldfish that you won by throwing a ping pong ball in their cup. Poor little fish that didn’t last past a week if they made it home at all and then got flushed down the toilet, my mother rolling her eyes and grumbling each and every time one came home….
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