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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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Today is the 4th day of the 7th week, the 14th day of the 2nd month, the 45th day of 2017, and:
- Ash Wednesday
- Frederick Douglas Day
- International Book Giving Day
- International Quirkyalone Day
- League of Women Voters Day – founded in Chicago in 1920
- Library Lovers Day
- National Call in Single Day
- National Cream-filled Chocolates Day
- National Ferris Wheel Day
- National Have a Heart Dy
- National Organ Donor Day
- National Women's Heart Day
- Pet Theft Awareness Day
- Race Relations Day
- Read to Your Child Day
- Singles Awareness Day or Singles Appreciation Day
- Valentine's Day
- World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
- World Sound Healing Day
On this day in ...
1663 - Canada becomes a Royal Province of France
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
1895 - Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opened at the St. James' Theatre in London.
1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1929 – Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago -- a debacle that came to be known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1966 – Australian currency is decimalized.
1990 – The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2003 - Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult - was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease.
2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2011 - The TV game show "Jeopardy!" began airing the first of three episodes pitting human players Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings against an IBM computer named "Watson."
Quote of the day:
"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet
Today celebrates love [at least in Western cultures] and starts a season of penance [at least among Roman Catholics]…..
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