Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial 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...
ON THIS DAY: In 668 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II was assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. In 1616 the first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe was opened in Frascati, Italy. In 1835 the HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reached the Galápagos Islands, landing at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago. In 1885 PT Barnum's famous circus elephant Jumbo charged and is killed by a Grand Trunk Railway train in the St, Thomas railway yard In 1968 the Soviet Zond 5 spaceship was launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. In 1971 the first Greenpeace ship set sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island. In 1978 Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans. In 1981 the John Bull became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operated it under its own power outside Washington DC In 1982 the first edition of the USA Today newspaper was published. In 2017 Cassini ends its 20 year exploration of the Saturn system by diving into the planet's atmosphere.
While I didn’t include this in the list of events above, today marks the beginning of the recession when in 2008 the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, a sprawling global bank, filed for bankruptcy protection. The economy was already on shaky ground as real estate values were falling and this event changed the discussion from a “downturn” to a “recession” While pundits have been proclaiming The Great Recession over since 2013, the impact on the already dwindling middle class has been dire and it never rebounded. I personally believe this directly led to the creation of that group of disaffected voters in the US known as the WWC as very frustrated and frightened folks flailed about trying to regain their footing.
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