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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at Comedy Plus.
Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. What better way to start the week than with a smile!
More is caught than taught to children, and again Annie proves she knows just how important keys are. She loves hers and uses them often.
Yesterday, she wouldn't leave the house for us to go visit Ms. D if she couldn't bring her keys!
Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
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Our dear friend Diane has left it to us
and we're not going to make a fuss,
we miss her poetry and wit
but carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!
Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Charlotte/Mother Owl and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!
This week the theme is Planes.
he who believes in
flat Earth can travel only
if he's on a plane
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A business man was getting
on a plane one day
and his heavy bag
was trying to put away
into an overhead bin
but could not do it alone
the flight attendant helped him
and when done, she did groan,
"Do you always travel
with a bag that's such a chore?"
He looked at her and said,
"It won't happen any more!
The next time I am flying
my partner can buy the seat
and I'll get in the bag
to save my sore back and feet!"
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Future themes are:
Nov 9 Planes (Today!)
Nov 16 Fairy tales
Nov 23 Earthquake
Nov 30 Oasis
Dec. 7 Blueprints
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today is:
Allama Iqbal Day -- Pakistan
Chaos Never Dies Day -- internet generated, and just look in my closets if you want proof that we need this one
Couch Beachcombing Day -- internet generated; also called sofa diving, you will be amazed what you will find!
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Deepavali/Diwali(Festival of Lights) -- Hindu; Jain; Sikh (second day of the festival)
Kukur Tihar/Kukur Puja -- Day of Dogs
Jain New Year
Dia de los Natitas -- La Paz, Bolivia (Day of the Skulls, when skulls are decorated and then offered cigarettes, coca leaves, and other items)
Fiesta de Nuestra Senora de la Almudena -- Madrid, Spain (Feast of the Virgin of the Almudena, Patroness of the City)
Flag Day -- Azerbaijan
Go to an Art Museum Today Day -- it's a good idea, whoever started this one
Independence Day -- Cambodia (1953)
Lord Mayor's Day / Lord Mayor's Show -- London, England (traditional date, celebrated on the nearest Saturday; a traditional Show since 1215, when King John granted the people of London the right to elect their own mayor)
National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day
National Nibble Day -- as promoted by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith
National Scrapple Day
Neon Sign Day -- Georges Claude received a patent for the neon sign on this day in 1911
Night of Nicnevin (Gyre-Carling), Daughter of Frenzy, Banshee -- Scots Pagan (date approximate)
Paul is Dead Day -- Beatle's Conspiracy Theorists, who claim Paul died this day in 1966 and was replaced by Billy Campbell
Remembrance Day -- Cayman Islands
Schicksalstag -- Germany (Destiny Day or Fateful Day) anniversary of
the execution of Robert Blum in 1848
dethroning of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918
The Beer Hall Putsch in 1923
Kristallnacht (Crystal Night, marks the beginning of the Holocaust), 1938
the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
St.Theodore the General's Day (Patron of soldiers; Brindisi, Italy; invoked for the recovery of lost objects)
Tag der Erfinder -- Austria; Germany; Switzerland (Inventor's Day; birth anniversary of Hedy Lamarr, who was an inventor as well as an actress)
World Freedom Day -- US
World Orphans Day -- originally an initiative of The Stars Foundation; cannot find a current sponsor, although there is a Facebook page for this day, stating April 20 is the correct date, and here is a site where you can find out more about orphans in the developing world
Birthdays Today:
Nikki Blonsky, 1988
Nick Lachey, 1973
Chris Hericho, 1970
Thomas Quasthoff, 1959
Lou Ferrigno, 1951
Tom Weiskopf, 1942
Tom Fogerty, 1941
Mary Travers, 1936
Bob Gibson, 1935
Carl Sagan, 1934
Dorothy Dandridge, 1923
Spiro Agnew, 1918
Hedy Lamarr, 1913
James William Fullbright, 1905
Ed Wynn, 1886
Stanford White, 1853
Elijah P. Lovejoy, 1802
Benjamin Banneker, 1731 (first freeborn child of free African American parents)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Wizard of Id"(Comic strip), 1964
"Omnibus"(TV), 1952
Today in History:
Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery, 694
The Family de' Medici were expelled from Florence, 1494
Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1620
Hungarian parliament promises Protestants freedom of religion, 1681
The Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue in Jerusalem is set afire by Arabs, 1720
Napoleon becomes dictator of France, 1799
The first US pharmacy college begins classes in Philadelphia, 1821
The NY Symphony Orchestra holds its first public performance, 1858
The first documented Canadian football game is held, at the University of Toronto, 1861
Ulyses Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him, 1862
The Great Boston Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings, 1872
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US president to visit other countries during his tenure, visiting Puerto Rico and Panama, 1906
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people, 1913
Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect, 1921
Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965
First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published, 1967
Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion, 1985
The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered, 1994
The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, 2005
The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause, 2007
The USS Gerald R. Ford is christened by the U.S. Navy; the aircraft carrier cost $15.5 billion and is technically the most advanced ship ever built, 2013
"Reclining Nude" by Italian artist Modigliani fetches the second highest auction price ever at $170.4m, 2015
The Kartarpur Corridor opens, allowing Sikh worshippers from India to access the holy site of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan without a visa, 2019
105-year-old Julia Hawkins sets a world record as the first woman and first American her age to run 100 meters, in the Louisiana Senior Olympic Games, 2021
Archaeologists announce the discovery of oldest decipherable sentence every found in Canaanite script, on an ivory comb dating from 1,700 B.C from Tel Lachish, Israel, stating, “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard,” 2022
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