Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
Pope John VIII crowned Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Fat today (881). Also, Vasco de Gama set sail from Lisbon on his second voyage to India (1502), Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago, Chile (1541), Lady Jane Grey was beheaded (1554), James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia and its first city, Savannah (1773), a fire destroyed Naples’ Real Teatro di San Carlo, Europe’s oldest opera house (1816), Bernardo O’Higgins approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence (1818), Edward Hargraves announced his discovery of gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, setting off Australia’s first gold rush (1851), Michigan State University was founded (1855), as was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909), China’s last emperor, Aisin-Gioro Puyi, abdicated (1912), the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid (1914), a South Carolina policeman beat and blinded Army veteran Isaac Woodard, inspiring Orson Welles’ A Touch of Evil and galvanizing the Civil Rights Movement (1946), the Soviet Union launched Venera 1 toward Venus (1961), construction began on St. Louis’ Gateway Arch (1963), the Soviet Union expelled Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974), Carmen Lawrence became Premier of Western Australia, the first female state premier in the nation’s history (1990), the Constitution of Mongolia took effect (1992), four men stole Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery of Norway (1994), NEAR Shoemaker landed on 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid (2001), the war crimes and human rights violations trial of former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević began at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague (2002), under a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples (2004), and 50 people died when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence Center, New York (2009). And Pope Francis met Patriarch Kirill at José Martí International Airport in Cuba, the first meeting between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox primate, where they signed the Havana Declaration (2016)
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Good morning! ::hugggggs::
Good morning BPI! It’s currently a cloudy 24 degrees, and while the sun might appear today, it’s not going to get any warmer. There’s not much on the agenda for today that I’m aware of, but that could change. February is always the most boring month for us, since we all end up in a holding pattern. In other news, California launches probe into Aetna. Apparently their medical directors aren’t doing little things like “looking at the patient’s records” before denying care.
I am shocked, I tell ya!
Good morning!
We’ve a clear sky which helps explain our 13 degrees… Oops 12.9, spoke too soon! 🙂
They cancelled Sunday School yesterday, on account of the ice, but the phone didn’t ring here ’till about 10 minutes after I’d left. Well, I am the guy who turns on the lights and makes coffee, so I leave early… The sausage supper went fine, looked like, ‘though not as busy as other years. I took carry-outs to Gas Girl et al, they loved ’em. Little Aurora is scheduled for her surgery at this time.gonna have her adenoids pruned, but it’s a general anesthesia and so that makes everyone nervous… I will skip the USDA unload at food pantry, and head over to the other grandma’s when she calls, sh’e keeping Ady overnight. He’s looking forward to two sleepovers, is supposed to stay here tonight. IDK, it’s asking a lot of a 4 year old.
Hoping all are well!
Best, G
Hopefully Aurora comes through her surgery with no problems, and I think Ady will managed to survive two sleepovers. 🙂
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Check out this editorial on Time from Rob Porter’s ex-wife: President Trump will not diminish my truth.
Good morning! ::hugggggs::
A cloudy 42 degrees this morning with showers. Sunshine and a high of 44 degrees expected this afternoon. Twentyfive degrees tomorrow morning.
A $200 billion or a $1.5 trillion ten year infrastructure plan. Do you count the matching funds that seem to disappear.
Aurora out of surgery, in recovery room, all is well!
Wonderful news.
Great news!!! So happy for the family. 🙂
Great news 🙂
All is well… They are enroute home, Aurora is happy as a clam. Whew…