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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 3rd day of the 3rd week, the 15th day of the 1st month, the 15th day of 2019, and:
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Day
- Humanitarian Day
- National Bagel Day
- National Booch Day
- National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
- National Hat Day
- National Strawberry Ice Cream Day
- Printing Ink Day
- Rid the World of Fad Diet and Gimmicks Day
- The second day of the sidereal winter solstice festivals in India
- Wikipedia Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1541- François I names Jean-François de la Rocque, Sieur de Roberval lieutenant-general of New France and commissions him to begin a colony in Canada and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith". On March 9, 1541, the King gives him a grant of £40,000 livres, and appoints him "Viceroy of the Kingdom of Canada, as well as Hochelaga, Saguenay, Newfoundland, Belle Isle, Cap Rouge, Labrador, the Great Bay and Baccalaos". Roberval was given the expedition to colonize the St Lawrence over Jacques Cartier; under his orders,
1759 – The British Museum opens in Montague House, London.
1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1785 - Mozart's string quartet opus 10 premieres
1818 – A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
1831 - first US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run, with the first US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina
1844 - The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1876 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
1892 – Basketball rules first published in Triangle Magazine, written by James Naismith
1895 - Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg
1907 - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
1907 - Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
1919 – Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
1927 - The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T. Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself remains in force
1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1943 - World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed, and 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for it
1948 - "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", film based on B. Traven's novel, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart premieres
1969 - Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean by the US
1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1974 - "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
1976 - US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2001 – Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, debuts online.
2004 - The NASA Spirit rover rolled onto the surface of Mars.
2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
2019 - NASA Voyager is 20 hrs 06 mins 32 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2019:015:120000:1L)
Quote of the day:
"When we ask an open question we have not yet found an answer. And this leaves the mind free, unobstructed, and ready for adventure… There is nothing ignorant or vague about this openness, because questioning actively engages the movement and fluidity of life."
~ Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “The Power of an Open Question”
I have a bit of a reputation for asking questions, usually in threes, when I am interested in someone or something. I like the idea of finding out what makes a person tick, what they think and feel about stuff, how they see themselves in relationship to the universe. I find that while some enjoy the attention and the interest, some find it intrusive or nosey or even rather vulgar [that was certainly how my mother’s family viewed question asking!]. At work, I learned the hard way being a person who always wants to understand the whys and wherefores quickly labels you as a trouble-maker as those who are more set in their ways view question asking as combative or competitive. And yet, I do want to know, to understand!
And as those who know me well can attest, when I stop asking them questions, it is a very bad sign indeed….
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