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 335 Flavius Dalmatius was raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I. In 1778 the Continental Congress passed the first United States federal budget. In 1846 two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experienced a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. In 1879 the Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time. In 1952 the United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. In 1957 the first American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob). In 1970 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS. In 2008 AMC's "Mad Men" became the first basic-cable show to win a top series Emmy award. In 2011 Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.
Quote of the day:
"Do what you can where you are with what you've got."
~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 26th President of the United States
Fired by the commercials that showed folks happily dancing with folks from their ancestors’ homelands, and mindful of the family history that claimed Grandpop Hughes’ ancestry, which hailed from the hunters and fishermen of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, included Indain stock, I decided to take the D23andme.com saliva testing to find out where my DNA was from. I managed to come up with the prerequisite amount of spit, sealed the container and sent it off, waiting with baited breath to find out whether I was really a part of this country’s indigenous population or totallly an immigrant.
So much for family legends. Looks like I am a polygot stew of legal and illegal immigrants. I have no idea where that stray bit of Scandanavion DNA came from – my girlfriend says that it was a roving Viking but I am just as convinced it was an early Bluebeard raping and pillaging in the colonies.
At least my red hair and sensitivity to the sun is explained....
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