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God Bless Autumn!

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I feel like this summer was so hot this year! One reason may be because I spent this summer with my  88 year old mother. I discovered that her body temperature must be at least 20 degrees lower than mine.  She felt  comfortable  with air conditioner set between 75 to 80 degrees! I endured by  drinking iced filled drinks and partially frozen bottled  water. I love her and want to her to stay comfortable.   I had  just purchased two unusual cactus plants oline. Then, I decided to go stay my mother for a  few months.  I couldn't  just leave my plants unattended in my front yard.  I know these are low maintenance cactus plants.  But these were my new Babies.  I traveled 50 miles with them loaded in my SUV. They tolerated the ride just fine without tipping over.   I sat the Fire Stick cactus and the Sunburst Aeonium Cristata cactus on my Mom's front lawn.  Now the Fall season has come and they're looking pretty good. O Here are some tips I lea

BIRTHDAY GREETING!

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May God Continue to Bless These Beautiful People!

THEY WERE FIRST! PART 2

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FIRST AFRO-AMERICANS LISTED IN LITERATURE: https://en.wikipedia.org JUPITER HAMMON IMAGE:  https://relg250.marybethmathews.org 1760 First known African-American published author:  Jupiter Hammon  (poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by  Christ with  Penitential Cries", published as a  broadside ) PHILLIS WHEATLEY (c. 1753–1784) IMAGE:  https://www.biography.com 1773 First known African-American woman to publish a book:  Phillis Wheatley   ( Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral ) PETER WILLIAMS, JR IMAGE:   https://en.wikipedia.org 1827 First African-American owned-and-operated newspaper:  Freedom's Journal , founded in New York City by Rev.  Peter Williams Jr.  and other  free blacks WILLIAMS WELLS BROWN 1814 OR 1815- 1884 IMAGE:  https://en.wikipedia.org 1853 First novel published by an Af

OUTSTANDING BLACK AMERICANS!

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ROSA PARKS https://en.wikipedia.org Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.  On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.  Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the  NAACP believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for  civil disobedience  in violating Alabama segregation laws. https://www.google.com https://www.amazon.com Parks wrote her autobiography and it was published in 1992.  The title was: Rosa Parks: My Story.  There were books written  about her available online: National Geographic Readers: Rosa Parks  Who Was Rosa Parks? By: Yona Zeldis McDonough So

THEY WERE FIRST! PART 1

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https://en.wikipedia.org Mae Carol Jemison  (born October 17, 1956) is an American  engineer ,  physician , and former  NASA  astronaut. She became the first  black  woman to travel into space when she served as a  mission specialist  aboard the  Space Shuttle  Endeavour . Jemison joined NASA's  astronaut corps in 1987  and was selected to serve for the  STS-47  mission, during which she orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on  September 12–20, 1992. OTHER WOMEN IN SPACE EXPLORATION: XPLORATION OUTER SPACE TV SHOW: GROUP FROM TRINIDAD & TOBAGO- COMPETING WITH  ROBOTS!

MLK DAY!

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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, 2020  CELEBRATION AT MLK CENTER IN RESEARCH TRIANGLE AREA, NORTH CAROLINA. (GLARE ON SUNNY DAY PREVENTED CLEAR VIEW OF FACE)

GREETINGS!

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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS & BLESSINGS TO ALL OCTOBER DARLINGS! ****************************************** A SONG JUST FOR YOU: