Cleaning cart at one of my jobs.
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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday.
Today is:
Abolition Day -- Mayotte
Administrative Professionals Day
Babe Ruth Day -- anniversary of the day dedicated to him in 1947 by every ball field in the US and Japan
Freedom Day -- South Africa
Furze-Hopping Event -- Fairy Calendar
Independence Day -- Sierra Leone(1961); Togo(1960)
International Guide Dog Day
Jouvert Jump-Up -- Sint Maartin (Break of Dawn Parade and Festival)
King's Birthday / Koninginnedag -- Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curacao, Netherlands, and Sint Maartin); Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba
Matanzas Mule Day -- remembering the only casualty of one of the first naval actions of the Spanish-American War, a mule in the village of Matanzas, Cuba
Morse Code Day -- birth anniversary of Samuel Morse
National Prime Rib Day
National War Veterans Day -- Finland
Poetry & the Creative Mind Gala -- Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, US (an extraordinary evening celebrating the role of contemporary poetry in American culture sponsored by Academy of American Poets)
Resistance Day/Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces -- Slovenia
St. Zita of Lucca's Day (Patron of butlers, domestic servants, homemakers, housemaids, lost keys, maids, manservants, people ridiculed for their piety, rape victims, servants, servers, single laywomen, waiters/waitpersons/waitresses; against losing keys)
Sunfest -- West Palm Beach, FL, US (Florida's largest music, art, and waterfront festival; through Sunday)
Tell a Story Day -- US (no history of origin, although celebrated in many libraries)
Togyu Taikai -- Tokunoshima Island, Japan (bull sumo, in which bulls push each other out of the ring, today and May 3-5)
The Ennead Sail Through the Land -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Victory Day -- Afghanistan
Walk @ Lunch Day -- founded and encouraged by Blue Cross / Blue Shield
World Graphic Design Day
World Tapir Day
Write An Old Friend Today Day -- a real letter, in the mail, remember how exciting it is to get those?
Anniversaries Today:
Ringo Starr marries Barbara Bach, 1981
Cornell University is established as New York's land grant institution, 1865
Birthdays Today:
Patrick Stump, 1984
Sheena Easton, 1959
Ace Frehley, 1951
Cuba Gooding, Sr., 1944
Earl Anthony, 1938
Sandy Dennis, 1937
Anouk Aimee, 1932
Casey Kasem, 1932
Coretta Scott King, 1927
Jack Klugman, 1922
Walter Lantz, 1900
Sergei Prokofiev, 1891
Jessie Redmon Fauset, 1882
Ulysses S. Grant, 1822
Samuel Morse, 1791
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759
Edward Gibbon, 1737
Suleiman the Magnificent, 1495
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Chips with Everything"(Play), 1962
"Le roi de Lahore/The king of Lahore"(Opera), 1877
"Roméo et Juliette"(Opera), 1867
"L'africaine/The African Woman"(Meyerbeer Opera), 1865
Today in History:
Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu, 1521
Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar, 1539
Cebu is established as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, 1565
The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10, 1667
The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, 1773
Beethoven composes Für Elise, 1810
US troops capture the capital of Upper Canada, York (present day Toronto, Canada), 1813
The Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid, 1840
The establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria is prohibited, 1857
The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons, 1865
In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races, 1950
Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship, 1960
Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, 1961
Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada, 1967
Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse, 1981
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed, 1992
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history, 1992
Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, 1992
The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote is held, 1994
The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10 is received, 2002
The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France, 2005
Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City, 2006
Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia, 2007
The wives and children of former Osama bin Laden are deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, 2012
That's a lot of stuff; i'd just let a Roomba loose and come back the next day...but then I'd probably not get a call back.
ReplyDeleteThat's a ton of stuff. You work so hard.
ReplyDeleteHave a terrific Wordless Wednesday. ☺
Talk about tools of the trade. You've certainly got a lot of work on if you need all that stuff. I hope your relaxation cart is just as overloaded :)
ReplyDeleteWow loads of stuff there that looks like a lot of work :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a tanfastic day :-)
That cart looks collected to me. I guess that's why I need help ;)
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a lot of cleaning equipment.
ReplyDeleteyou have a lot of stuff
ReplyDeleteyou are so crazy busy!
ReplyDeleteWow! That is a lot of cleaning supplies. And I kind of want it for my own house. One for each floor - ha.
ReplyDeleteI use plastic crates for my cleaning supplies, the problem is that they don't make it out of the crates often enough! I sure wish you lived close by!! :-)
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