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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 is taking a break
accommodations we must make
we miss her poetry and wit
so 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!
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Santa Claus does not
pay to park on his sleigh ride
it is on the house
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Yosemite was made a national park,
no way anyone could ban it,
it's such a spectacular place
you can't take it for granite.
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"My employees are always on time,"
the boss said with smugness sublime.
When asked how he did it, he'd say,
"Well, it goes just this way:
we have 30 people work here,
the first 29 arrive with good cheer,
as they get to park for free,
but the last one must pay the parking fee!"
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Future themes are:
July 7 Park (Today!)
July 14 Salt
July 21 Quince
July 28 Building
August 2 Lonely
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Today is:
Aphrodisia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (bathing festival of Aphrodite and Peitho [Persuasion]; date approximate)
Bonza Bottler Day™
Caricom Day -- Guyana
Carnival Monday -- Saint Vincent and Grenadines
Chocolate Day -- no one knows why today, so why not? Enjoy chocolate cereal with chocolate milk for breakfast, some chocolate covered raisins and nuts as a midmorning snack, chocolate milk with lunch, chocolate truffles as a midafternoon snack, chocolate liquer before dinner, chocolate cake for dessert, and sip chocolate coffee any time through the day!
Constitution Day -- Cayman Islands
Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day -- encouraging fathers to take some special time out with their girls today
Global Forgiveness Day -- encouraging "citizens of this global village" to forgive and be forgiven; sponsored by the CECA
Independence Day / National Day -- Solomon Islands(1978)
Macaroni Day -- it goes with more than just cheese!
National Strawberry Sundae Day
Nones of July -- Ancient Roman Calendar; celebrations on this day included:
Festival of Feriae Ancillarum -- "Feast of the Serving Women", when female servants dressed up and "attacked" men of free birth with fig boughs; in honor of the serving women who helped free the city of Rome from the Gauls
Nonae Caprotinae -- "Nones of the Wild Fig", honoring Juno Caprotina with a sacrifice under a wild fig tree
Parilia -- festival for Pales, god of the herds
Saba Saba Day -- Tanzania (literally "Seven Seven" Day, a/k/a Peasants' Day or Workers' Day, and the biggest day of the Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair)
Maonyesho ya Saba Saba -- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Dar es Salaam Trade Fair, through July 8)
Sempach Battle Commemoration -- Lucerne, Switzerland (remembrance of the battle in 1386 includes a solemn procession to the battlefield and services in the chapel)
St. Willibald's Day (Patron of Eichstatt, Germany)
Tanabata -- Japan (star festival, 7th day of 7th month; some areas go by lunar calendar, but most larger cities celebrate by the Gregorian Calendar now)
Tell The Truth Day -- a yearly challenge from Kepa Freeman of Teens Express to go the whole day without telling a lie or saying or doing anything misleading or dishonest
Unity Factory Day -- Yemen (all workers are encouraged to play at work today, to build team and national unity)
Anniversaries Today
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., marries Eleanor Rosalynn Smith, 1946
Birthdays Today
Michelle Kwan, 1980
Cree Summer, 1969
Jorga Fox, 1968
Billy Campbell, 1959
Shelley Duvall, 1949
Ringo Starr, 1940
Doc Severinsen, 1927
Pierre Cardin, 1922
Gian Carlo Menotti, 1911
Robert Heinlein, 1907
Satchel Paige, 1906
Marc Chagall, 1887
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Ryan's Hope"(TV), 1975
"All You Need is Love"(Single release), 1967
Waverly(Novel, publication date), 1814
"Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate"(Canticles, HWV 278 & 279), 1713
Today in History
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death, 1456
Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland, 1575
United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $300, 1863
An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15, 1915
Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri; it is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", 1928
Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident, 1947
Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere, 1959
In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government, 1969
Sharia is instituted in Iran, 1980
Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov, 1983
The Western Black Rhinoceros is declared extinct due to poaching, 2006
In efforts to avoid food shortages and political oppression, South Korea begins work on a new facility to house North Korean refugees, 2011
Tesla Motors produces its first mass-market car, the Model 3, 2017
Nigeria, Africa' biggest economy, joins the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in attempt to create world's largest free trade area, 2019
The world's biggest sandcastle, standing 21.16m (69.4 feet) high, using nearly 5,000 tons of sand, is completed in Blokhus, Denmark, 2021
Scientists in the US begin the search for dark matter with a device in a former gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, 2022
The US announces it has destroyed the last if its stored chemical weapons in accord with the International Chemical Weapons Convention, 2023
More than 3 million passengers were recorded passing through US airport security in one day, a record, 2024
