Romans 12:6,8 "We have different gifts, according to the grace given us....If it is encouraging, let him (or her) encourage" Do you have the gift of encouraging? I have a friend, she is a retired teacher, and she was perfect for a teacher - she was a great encourager! (Which is not a word) We all have gifts, I think I know mine but would prefer to hear what others think my gift is. Do you know yours? Do you use it? I hope so. It would be a waste to not use it.
Get Healthy
I got a magazine from Blue Cross Medicare that mentioned the 4 types of exercise you should get;
Endurance, Strength, flexibility, and balance. It goes on to tell you what to do to stay strong in all of these. You could go to www.ahealthiermichigan.org to find out.
On this day
1974 I went to the Detroit Bank and Trust office at Northland and picked up a check for $4,760.00 and took it to the Ford dealership on Telegraph. I bought a brand new Ford Elite. It was beautiful! A two door sedan, bronze tone with a landau roof, and fully loaded inside with tan velvety seat covers. Oh, I loved that car. My car payment was 180.00 the same as my house payment. I had to work two jobs to make the payments but it was worth it to have my very first brand new car! It was top of the line, like a tank, very heavy with a huge trunk to carry my World of Gifts kit items to do home parties which was very profitable for as long as I could keep it up, which was about 2 years.
1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, was put into operation by the inventor John Stevens. The ferry went between New York City, NY, and Hoboken, NJ. Seems like a short trip!
Xenia Illinois
Pre-European[edit]
American Indians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. The Koster Site has been excavated and demonstrates 7,000 years of continuous habitation. Cahokia, the largest regional chiefdom and urban center of the Pre-Columbian Mississippian culture, was located near present-day Collinsville, Illinois. They built an urban complex of more than 100 platform and burial mounds, a 50-acre (20 ha) plaza larger than 35 football fields,[20] and a woodhenge of sacred cedar, all in a planned design expressing the culture's cosmology. Monks Mound, the center of the site, is the largest Pre-Columbian structure north of the Valley of Mexico. It is 100 feet (30 m) high, 951 feet (290 m) long, 836 feet (255 m) wide, and covers 13.8 acres (5.6 ha).[21] It contains about 814,000 cubic yards (622,000 m3) of earth.[22] It was topped by a structure thought to have measured about 105 feet (32 m) in length and 48 feet (15 m) in width, covered an area 5,000 square feet (460 m2), and been as much as 50 feet (15 m) high, making its peak 150 feet (46 m) above the level of the plaza. The finely crafted ornaments and tools recovered by archaeologists at Cahokia include elaborate ceramics, finely sculptured stonework, carefully embossed and engraved copper and mica sheets, and one funeral blanket for an important chief fashioned from 20,000 shell beads. These artifacts indicate that Cahokia was truly an urban center, with clustered housing, markets, and specialists in toolmaking, hide dressing, potting, jewelry making, shell engraving, weaving and salt making.[23] The civilization vanished in the 15th century for unknown reasons, but historians and archeologists have speculated that the people depleted the area of resources. Many indigenous tribes engaged in constant warfare. According to Suzanne Austin Alchon, "At one site in the central Illinois River valley, one third of all adults died as a result of violent injuries."[24] The next major power in the region was the Illinois Confederation or Illini, a political alliance.[25] As the Illini declined during the Beaver Wars era, members of the Algonquian-speaking Potawatomi, Miami, Sauk, and other tribes including the Fox (Mesquakie), Ioway, Kickapoo, Mascouten, Piankashaw, Shawnee, Wea, and Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) came into the area from the east and north around the Great Lakes.[26][27] We fool ourselves if we
don't explore our own country and its history and heritage. This is amazing.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable! Happy Birthday Marilyn & Keith!
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