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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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Once again this blogging platform has informed me that I have used too many words, so this is a seperate post!
Today is the 3rd day of the 49th week, the 6th day of the 12th month, the 341st day of 2016, and:
- Independence Day: Finland from Russia in 1917
- Miners' Day -- the worst mining disaster in American history occurred in the community of Monongah, West Virginia on December 6, 1907, resulting in the deaths of 361 miners
- Mitten Tree Day
- National Gazpacho Day
- National Microwave Oven Day
- National Pawnbrokers Day
- Put on Your Own Shoes Day
- St. Nicholas Day
ON THIS DAY: In 1060 Béla I was crowned King of Hungary. In 1534 the city of Quito in Ecuador was founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar. In 1752 John Bushell published 8-page bound pamphlet for the Nova Scotia government, “An act for the relief of debtors;" the first book published in Canada. In 1768 the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published. In 1877 the first edition of The Washington Post was published. In 1884 the Washington Monument in Washington DC was completed. In 1897 London became the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs. In 1923 a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress. In 1933 US federal judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene. In 1947 the Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated. In 1953 Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita. In 1957 America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
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