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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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Today is the 4th day of the 52nd week, the 26th day of the 12th month, the 360th day of 2018, and:
- Boxing Day
- First day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the New Year's Day (The Bahamas)
- National Candy Cane Day
- National Thank You Note Day
- National Whiner's Day
- Second day of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
- St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland), and its related observances
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1492 - First Spanish settlement La Navidad (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas) in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus
1606 - First known performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear" before the court of King James I at Whitehall, London
1860 – The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.
1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
1862 – The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Native Americans died.
1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
1878 - First US store to install electric lights is Wanamaker's in Philadelphia PA.
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1908 - Jack Johhnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
1924 - Judy Garland, 2½, billed as Baby Frances, makes her show business debut
1931 - Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" by George and Ira Gershwin premieres on Broadway, New York City
1933 - FM radio patent granted to American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong
1940 - "The Philadelphia Story" film directed by George Cukor, based on the Broadway play of the same name and starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, is released (Academy Awards Best Actor 1941)
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1944 - Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" premiered at the Civic Theatre in Chicago.
1946 - Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens
1951 - "The African Queen", directed by John Huston and based on the 1935 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, is released in LA, California (Academy Awards Best Actor 1952)
1954 - "The Shadow" airs for last time on radio
1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1973 - Horror film "The Exorcist" based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, starring Linda Blair, rated X, premieres - 1st horror film to be nominated for Best Picture
1975 – Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach 2, went into service.
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
1986 - TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
2004 - Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts broke Dan Marino's single-season touchdown pass record when he threw his 48th and 49th of the season in a victory over San Diego.
2009 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
Quote of the day:
"Being is the source of love because learning to love means learning to be content with the life you have been given. Being fully present to what is—without judging or evaluating or wanting something different—is the most basic act of love."
~ C. W. Huntington Jr., “The Miracle of the Ordinary”
This quote is probably one of the better descriptions I have read when it comes to explaining my concept of unconditional love – the simple acceptance of another “as is” without trying to weigh them down with your expectations. It is harder to do than it is to say. In these holidays of all faiths, the theme of family sounds loud and clear, and to keep a family functional, we all need to work on practicing such acceptance of each other.
It is my hope the knowledge of acceptance and of being heard will reduce the virulent violence of expression of all extremists. It is my fear, however, that evil cannot be surmounted by such loving behavior alone, but it is a very good first step.
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