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Carol H Tucker

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Today is the 6th day of the 9th week, the 3rd day of the 3rd month, the 62nd day of 2017, and: 
  • 33 Flavors DAy
  • Dress in Blue Day
  • Employee Appreciation Day
  • I Want You to be Happy Day
  • International Ear Care Day
  • International Sex Worker Rights Day
  • National Anthem Day
  • National Cold Cuts Day
  • National Day of Action (Peace Corps)
  • National Day of Unplugging
  • National Doodle Day
  • National Mulled Wine Day
  • National Speech and Debate Education Day
  • Princess Day
  • Peach Blossom Day
  • Shabbat Across America/Canada
  • What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day
  • World Day of Prayer
  • World Wildlife Day
ON THIS DAY:  In 473 Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominated Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.  In 1655 a Montreal physician offered Canada's First medical insurance  In 1875 Georges Bizet's opera Carmen premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.  In 1875 the first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey was played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.  IN 1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany became the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.  In 1923 TIME magazine was published for the first time.  In 1938 oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.  In 1951 Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, recorded "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.  In 1966 the BBC announced plans to begin broadcasting television programs in color next year.  In 1969 NASA launched Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.  In 1997 the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opened after two-and-a-half years of construction.  In 2002 voters in Switzerland approved joining the United Nations, abandoning almost 200 years of formal neutrality.



Quote of the day
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"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect."

~  Alain De Botton, British-based author and television presenter



Noodling about alternate design is a favorite pastime of the science fiction writers and many stories have speculated about what a society, what “humans” would look like if a different branch or order of beings had developed the opposable thumb.   Of these, since they live with us day in and day out, cats and dogs are favorite subjects, and hence this day of “what if”.   The anthropological record pretty much confirms that homo sapiens is classified in the primate branch of placental mammals.  Given the human fondness for and partnership with dogs and cats I had thought to find them closer on the DNA tree of life, instead it appears primates and carnivores branched off pretty early in the evolutionary process – we actually have more in common genetically with rodents and rabbits.  Which may or may not explain politicians, neh?

 

 

 

On that note, I am very glad that it is Friday and am looking forward to the weekend…..
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