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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!
Coda came with me to NOLA this weekend, which made her and Lulu very happy pups. They loved to "wrassle" up and down the hallway, often ending with sliding into doors or walls, then they get up and do it again.
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Sparks, the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, is on hiatus, so here's an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Charlotte/Mother Owl always participates, and now Karen at Baking in a Tornado is jumping in at least once a month, too. Spike's Best Mate often leaves a wonderful poem in the comments on one of our blogs.
This week the theme is Beach or Ocean.
There is a place i like to go
Like a home away from home,
It's a beach out on the ocean,
A place i love to roam.
In June we get to go there
Enjoy the sand and surf,
Explore this whole beach area,
Every bit of turf.
The sunrise there so pretty
It's worth the waking up,
The sunsets' evening glory
Does overflow my cup.
There are naps and fun excursions
To places all around,
Then come back, sit and listen,
Hear that ocean sound.
It's fun to watch the antics
Of bird and fish and crustacean,
We really love our oceanside beach
When we are on vacation!
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Today is:
Audubon Day -- birth anniversary of John James Audubon
Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy -- Belarus
Delphinia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Apollo; date approximate)
Fairy Laughter Convention -- Fairy Calendar
Festival of Individual Sovereignty -- an internet holiday that i think is a good idea!
Festival of Renenutet -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (as Lady of the Robes, who invented the bandages in which to wrap mummies; date approximate)
Hug an Australian Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Mayan Rain Festival -- to honor the rain gods and welcome the fruitfulness of the earth; date approximate
National Pretzel Day
Remember Your First Kiss Day
Richter Scale Day -- birth anniversary of Charles Francis Richter
Sacrifice to Zeus Epacrios -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)
Shuffleboard Day -- on the adopted birthday of the game (no exact date of origination can be pinned down, and fans want a day to celebrate, so here it is)
St. George's Day -- NL, Canada (obs.)
St. Rafael Arnaiz' Day (Patron of diabetics and against diabetes)
St. Stephen of Perm's Day / Old Permic Alphabet Day -- Russian Orthodox Church (inventor of the alphabet used for Russian before the Cyrillic was developed)
Union Day -- Tanzania
Visakh Bochea Day -- Cambodia (Buddha Day)
World Intellectual Property Day -- UN
Anniversaries Today:
Prince Albert (future George VI) marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, 1923
The Independent Order of Oddfellows, American branch, is established in Baltimore, MD, US, 1819
Moscow State University opens, 1755
Birthdays Today:
Jon Lee, 1982
Jason Earles, 1977
Tom Welling, 1977
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, 1970
Kane, 1967
Kevin James, 1965
Jet Li, 1963
Joan Chen, 1961
Michael Damian, 1962
Giancarlo Esposito, 1958
Boyd Matson, 1947
Gary Wright, 1943
Bobby Rydell, 1942
Duane Eddy, 1938
Carol Burnett, 1933
I.M. Pei, 1917
Hans Detlef "Douglas" Sierck, 1897
Anita Loos, 1889
Gertrude Bridget "Ma" Rainey, 1886 (Some say April 3)
Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822
John James Audobon, 1785
Marcus Aurelius, 121
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Jelly's Last Jam"(Musical), 1992
"Dinosaurs"(TV), 1991
"China Beach"(TV), 1988
"Company"(Musical), 1970
"Grand Polonaise Brillante"(Chopin Op. 20), 1835
Today in History:
Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn, 1514
William Shakespeare is baptized, 1564
English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, 1607
Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, 1802
Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic, 1925
In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections, 1963
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania, 1964
A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting, 1965
The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force, 1970
A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster, 1986
Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle, 1994
Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country, 2005
During the second day of evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, Rupert Murdock reveals there was a 'cover-up' at 'News of the World' but that he had no knowledge of it, 2012
The CEO of Chobani, Hamdi Ulukaya, announces that he will be giving his employees 10% of the shares in the company, 2016
The Waorani people of Pastaza win a landmark environmental case against the Ecuadorian government to protect half a million acres of their territory in the Amazon rainforest, 2019