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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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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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what's in a name?
Today is the 2nd day of the 10th week, the 5th day of the 3rd month, the 64th day of 2018, and:
- Casmir Pulaski Day
- Cinco de Marcho
- Fun Facts about Names Day
- Multiple Personality Day
- National Absinthe Day
- National Cheese Doodle Day
- National Potty Dance Day
- National Poutine Day
- Saint Piran's Day
- World Tennis Day
On this day in ...
1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama [AKA the Book of Travels]. Throughout his travels he kept a minutely detailed journal which clearly describes many facets of life in the Islamic world of the 11th Century, describes cities and towns along the path of his journey, with particular focus on Mecca, Jerusalem, and Cairo (the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate at the time). Khusraw's work is appreciated for its detailed descriptions of these cities, with precise accounts of civic buildings and markets
1496 - English King Henry VII grants to Italian merchant and explorer Giovanni Caboto Montecataluna (John Cabot) letters patent with "free authority, faculty and power to sail to all parts, regions and coasts of the eastern, western and northern sea...."
1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books [The Index Librorum Prohibitorum -- a list of publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious, and therefore banned by the Roman Catholic Church] 73 years after it was first published
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1970 - The nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect.
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
This blog is officially seven years old now – and here is the second post that I wrote, this one in honor of Fun Facts About Names Day explaining how my online moniker became beladona, and why just about every avatar I create in games tends to be short and either a Halfling or some other race. Not many folks realize the misspelling is quite deliberate. I didn’t know that having a name that starts with a lower-case letter indicates a person is a submissive in the sub-culture known as BDSM or a slave in the M/s culture, so that kinda labeled me without my understanding at first. Other folks just assumed I was too lazy to capitalize my name, which isn’t necessarily untrue most of the time but in this case I was deliberately keeping to lower case letters. As to my “real life” name? According to my grandmother, my mother and she were watching a day time soap and there was a character with the name of “Carol Ann Hughes” and they both decided it sounded good. My father didn’t have any strong opinions, so that became my name.
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