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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 25 2017, 06:38 AM (162 Views) | |
| Catseye3 | Feb 25 2017, 06:38 AM Post #1 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Today's Doodle celebrates Ida Lewis, whose birthday it is, and who was a hero. Four months after her father was appointed keeper of Lime Rock Light in Newport in 1854, he suffered a stroke. Ida expanded her domestic duties to include caring for him and a seriously ill sister and also, with her mother's assistance, tending the light: filling the lamp with oil at sundown and again at midnight, trimming the wick, polishing carbon off the reflectors, and extinguishing the light at dawn. The only way to reach the mainland was by boat. By the age of 15 Ida had become known as the best swimmer in Newport. She rowed her younger siblings to school every weekday and fetched supplies from town as they were needed. She became very skillful at handling the heavy rowboat. Responding to criticism that it was unladylike for women to row boats, Ida said that "None but a donkey, would consider it 'un-feminine' to save lives." For more about this amazing person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...s_(lighthouse_keeper) Happy Birthday, Ida, wherever you are!
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| "I shall now begin to speak of purple, which exceeds all the colors that have so far been mentioned both in costliness and in the superiority of its delightful effect." -- Vitruvius, De architectura, 1st century BC. | |
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| brenda | Feb 25 2017, 06:42 AM Post #2 |
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Great history! Happy birthday to her, and thanks for sharing this. |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Mikhailoh | Feb 25 2017, 08:34 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Impressive! How were her sandwiches? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Catseye3 | Feb 25 2017, 08:42 AM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Fvck off. |
| "I shall now begin to speak of purple, which exceeds all the colors that have so far been mentioned both in costliness and in the superiority of its delightful effect." -- Vitruvius, De architectura, 1st century BC. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Feb 25 2017, 09:48 AM Post #5 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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It has more emphasis if you trick the filter and use actual spelling.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Copper | Feb 25 2017, 10:47 AM Post #6 |
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Shortstop
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Good catch! You noticed her name was an anagram for: I was Deli? |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Mikhailoh | Feb 25 2017, 12:57 PM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Ummm, yeah. That's it..... |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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It has more emphasis if you trick the filter and use actual spelling.
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