Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Ran Out of WW Photos (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, BeThere2Day, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     





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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    


This month, the prompts are being provided by Lissa 


This week's prompts are:


leap

original

unusual

29

time


Charlotte/Mother Owl has chosen Graphite Black as the color of the month.



"Got any plans for LEAP day this year?"


"Nothing UNUSUAL.  I mean, I've got work that day and I'm not planning to propose to anyone or anything like that."


"Propose as in a marriage proposal?"


"Yes.  I mean, no, I'm not planning on doing that."


"Why would you?  What does that have to do with leap day?"


"There's lots of stories about it, on February 29, a woman may propose to a man and if the man refuses, he has to give her some kind of recompense.  The ORIGINAL reasons are attributed to Queen Margaret or even St. Bridget of Ireland, but it's all just legends."


"Speaking of legends, the boss is wearing his Black outfit of doom today, we'd best keep an eye on the TIME and not be late getting back from lunch."


"Thanks for the warning."



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Today is:


Anniversary of His Majesty the King -- Bhutan


Anthesteria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (three day Festival of Flowers, feast of the dead, and drinking festival; date approximate)


Card Reading Day -- because greeting cards can be fun to just stop and read, can't they?


Day in Honor of Dr. W. H. Lini, Father of Independence -- Vanuatu


Feast of the Feralia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (final day of the Parentalia, with picnics in the graveyard that included libations to the departed)


International Mother Language Day -- UNESCO     


National Sticky Bun Day


Remember the Funniest Thing Your Kid Ever Did Day -- in honor of Erma Bombeck's birth anniversary


Sandino Day -- Nicaragua (assassination anniversary of Augusto César Sandino)


Shaheed Dibosh -- Bangladesh (International Mother Language Day/Language Martyr's Day, for those who died in the Bengali Language Movement in 1952)


St. Peter Damian's Day (Doctor of the Church)



Anniversaries Today:


Dudley Moore marries Brogan Lane, 1988

Liz Taylor marries Michael Wilding, 1952

The Washington Monument is dedicated, 1885



Birthdays Today:


Corbin Bleu, 1989

Ashley Greene, 1987

Ellen Page, 1987

Charlotte Church, 1986

Jennifer Love Hewitt, 1979

William Baldwin, 1963

Christopher Atkins, 1961

Alan Trammell, 1958

Jack Coleman, 1958

Mary Chapin Carpenter, 1958

Kelsey Grammer, 1955

Christine Ebersole, 1953

William Petersen, 1953

Olympia J. Snowe, 1947

Tyne Daly, 1946

Alan Rickman, 1946

David Geffen, 1943

John Lewis, 1940

Gary Lockwood, 1937

Barbara Jordan, 1936

Rue McClanahan, 1935

Nina Simone, 1933

Roberto Gomez Bolanos, 1929

Erma Bombeck, 1927

Hubert de Givenchy, 1927

Sam Peckinpah, 1925

Ann Sheridan, 1915

W.H. Auden, 1907

Anais Nin, 1903

Andres Segovia, 1893

Alice Freeman Palmer, 1855

Charles Scribner, 1821

John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1801

Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, 1794



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Die Physiker"(Play), 1962

"A Woman to Remember"(TV; first soap opera), 1949

"War as it Happens"(TV), 1944

"Green Pastures"(Play), 1930

"The New Yorker"(Magazine), 1925

"The Communist Manifesto"(Publication date), 1848

"Cherokee Phoenix"(Newspaper, first US Native American paper), 1828



Today in History:


England begins the trial against Joan of Arc, 1431

John Wilkes is thrown out of the English House of Commons for his pornographic poem "An Essay on Woman," a satire of Pope's "An Essay on Man," 1764

Freedom of worship is established in France under its Constitution, 1795

The first locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for the first time, in Wales, 1804

The first Native American Indian newspaper, the "Cherokee Phoenix", begins publication, 1828

The first known sewing machine in the US is patented by John Greenough of Washington, D.C., 1842

Sarah G Bagley of Lowell, Massachusetts becomes the first US woman telegrapher, 1846

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto, 1848

The US Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in the US, 1857

Edwin T. Holmes installs the first electric burglar alarm, in Boston, Massachusetts, 1858

The first Roman Catholic parish church for blacks in the US is dedicated, in Baltimore, Maryland, 1864

Lucy B. Hobbs becomes the first US woman to earn a DDS degree, 1866

Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier, 1874

The first telephone book is issued, to 50 subscribers in New Harbor, Connecticut, 1878

Oregon becomes the first US state to declare Labor Day a holiday, 1887

The North Carolina legislature adjourns for the day to mark the death of Frederick Douglass, 1895

Dr. Harvey Cushing, the first US neurosurgeon, performs his first operation, 1902

Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto, 1911

The Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins, will last until Dec. 18; over a quarter of a million casualties, half a million injuries, 1916

The last Carolina parakeet, Incas, dies in the Cincinati Zoo, in the same cage that had held Martha, the last passenger pigeon, 4 years earlier, 1918

The Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution, 1921

Great Britain grants Egypt independence, 1922

The first issue of "New Yorker" magazine is published, 1925

The first instant developing camera is demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land, 1947

The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free", 1952

Watson and Crick discover the structure of the DNA molecule; according to legend, they walk into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge and Crick announces, "We have found the secret of Life," 1953

The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1958

Malcolm X is assassinated, 1965

The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna, 1971

The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon, 1972

Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison, 1975

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, 1995

Euro zone finance ministers agree on a second bailout for Greece, 2012

Scientists discover that bumblebees have the ability to sense electric fields around flowers, enabling them to identify specific flowers for pollination, 2013

Turkey sends troops to Syria to rescue 40 guards and relocate remains from the tomb of Sulayman Shah, which is now surrounded by ISIS militants; the site is internationally recognized as Turkish territory, 2015

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 touches down on asteroid Ryugu on a mission to collect rock samples, 2019

Israel launches the Beresheet Lunar Lander with a Lunar Library, a 30 million page digital library, with the aim of storing a back-up of much of humanity's learning (a "civilization backup") on the Moon, 2019

Englishwoman Jasmine Harrison, age 21, becomes the youngest woman to row across an ocean arriving in Antigua as part of the Atlantic Challenge after 70 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes, 2021

Australia's border reopens to vaccinated tourists after almost two years, 2022

18 comments:

  1. I have a couple of girl friends who proposed in leap year and were accepted. I am sure that not all are though.

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  2. It's such a long time since I saw a fence.

    God bless.

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  3. I saw that it was the anniversary for Joan of arcs trial to begin. What a story and a lesson to be learned there.

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  4. We could use that sign for emails. No special plans here for leap day, just enjoying an extra day in the month I guess.

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  5. I remember having a student in my class one year who was born on Leap Day. He took great pride in telling people he was three!

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  6. I remember my school days when leap year happened we'd say it's the girls year to ask the guy but I always thought it was like to be my boyfriend not marriage. lol

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  7. I could have had that desk plate when I was working. I was very overworked.

    Love your take on the prompt. Well done.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Hugs. ♥

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  8. Chaplin: "We cats are usually right on top of things, too! The higher up, the better!"

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  9. I wonder how many offers of marriage I'll receive this year!

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  10. Great sign and story with those prompts.

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  11. LOL hope you are :-)

    Have a wwtastic week 👍

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  12. I'm so not right on top of that. I had a co-worker who was born on leap day. He would say I'm 19,this was in 1989.

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  13. I have heard about the tradition about women proposing to men on leap year day - it seems like a good idea. Good use of the wfw prompts.

    Have a lovely day.

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  14. That's a cool story and a cool sign too!

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  15. Great writings from the prompts ~ hugs,

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  16. Love your story, and I could use that sign at work, for sure!

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  17. I'd forgotten leap year was women's proposal day. Good story.

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  18. "his Black outfit of doom" - now that sure sounds bad, I hope they stay on the rigth side of him. Thanks for the story, and for using my colour.

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