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World Thinking Day is celebrated each year by the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts across the world on the 22nd February.
Thinking Day originated from a desire by the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to dedicate a day to thinking about and appreciating the global spread of these movements. The observance of Thinking Day has been celebrated every year since 1926, and began over 90 years ago.
The day began when the delegates from the Guide and Girl Scout organizations from across the globe attended the 4th world conference where it was decided that the day would be created and would be held on Lord Baden-Powell’s birthday, the founder of the Girl Scout and Guide movements.
Several years after the day was begun, at the 7th World Conference held in Poland, it was suggested that birthdays usually mean the giving of gifts. It was suggested that girls who were part of the movement could give some kind of gift or do fundraising to help support the movement.
Olave Baden-Powell wrote a letter that was addressed to all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and asked them to give a penny to help support the Girl Guiding and Girl Scout movements around the world.
History of Thinking Day
Since it was first launched, Thinking Day has become a way to support Girl Guiding and Girl Scouts across the globe. It allows groups of Girl Guides and Scouts to get to know and connect with others within the Girl Guiding and Scouting community, even if they’re situated countries apart.
The aim of Thinking Day is to bring together young people from across the world – nearly 150 countries choose to take part in the celebrations – to celebrate international fun and friendship, as well as to help raise money and focus on the year’s global theme.
Each year, the theme for Thinking Day changes; this year the theme is ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ – it’s about respecting other people for who they are, regardless of their background. The theme for this year is about treating everyone equally regardless of race, religion, age, nationality, ability, appearance, gender, identity, and experience.
The Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are a global movement with 10 million girls spread across 150 countries, all of whom have diverse backgrounds, cultures and experiences. This year’s Thinking Day aims to celebrate the incredible diversity within the movement.
Usually, one country is selected to be the focus of Thinking Day. With the aim being that Girl Guides and Scouts from across the world will spend time researching the country, its culture and the living conditions in place there, and are then able to better understand how other people in the world live.
The idea around selecting one country to focus on is to help the community better understand and be aware of how different cultures and communities across the globe function and live on a daily basis. It’s also an opportunity to gain a better insight into different religions and how they impact the ways in which communities live and function across the world.
A 1p donation is requested from each member in support of projects that aid Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from member countries in need.
Thinking Day is one of the most important days in the Girl Guiding calendar, with the theme of the event encouraging members of the movement to think about the bigger issues impacting themselves and the communities around them, as well as communities situated across the globe.
Previous Thinking Days have tackled difficult issues such as : poverty, inequality based on gender, sustainability and the environment, as well as access to education across the globe.
To celebrate this momentous day, most Girl Guiding groups opt to plan a range of different events to mark the occasion. The activities organized are normally designed around the concepts of the day’s theme, which this year are: diversity, equity, and inclusion. With the aim being for the Girl Guiding movement to focus on how they can put these issues into practice and help the world to celebrate diversity both locally and in communities across the globe.
thanks, Michele, Picture Coordinator
WORD OF THE DAY
sinistrad
MEANING:adverb, adjective: Toward the left side.
ETYMOLOGY:From Latin sinister (left, left hand, unlucky). Earliest documented use: 1803.
USAGE:“The ascending colon ... turns sinistrad.”
D.R. Khanna & P.R. Yadav; Biology of Mammals; Discovery; 2005.
TODAY'S ARTIST thanks, Natalie
D.R. Khanna & P.R. Yadav; Biology of Mammals; Discovery; 2005.
Otake Chikuha (尾竹 竹坡, January 11, 1878 – June 2, 1936) 
was a Japanese painter. He was first known for his nihonga and ukiyo-e paintings. Although he was a praised figure at the height of his career, he later lost his reputation. He moved onto experimenting with more ambitious styles motivated by his anti-mainstream sentiments.
Karen carries on....
IDIOM OF THE DAYWhat does 'bring on board' mean?
Meaning:
To make people embrace the ideas intended by the leader or agree to join a team or project is to bring them on board.
these gals aged nicely
thanks, Patsy
Crayfish from the Great Barrier Reef's crystal-clear lagoon waters WOW
(Not So) TOTALLY USELESS FACTS OF THE DAY
There are nine known species of sharks that are able to walk. They have all evolved in the last nine million years.
Since the early 1900s there's been a tradition known as 'Put A Pillow On Your Fridge' Day. It was believed that by placing a pillow on your fridge, it would bring luck and wealth to your household.
If you want to keep a kangaroo from hopping, lift its tail. By lifting its tail you cause it to lose balance and more than likely fall over.
an iceberg with a heart
It's time again for the annual " Stella Awards"! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico, where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that?
That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy!
Here are the Stella's for this year:
· SEVENTH PLACE
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
· SIXTH PLACE *
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
· FIFTH PLACE *
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol,
CT, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more...
· FOURTH PLACE *
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun
· THIRD PLACE *
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
*SECOND PLACE*
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure
· FIRST PLACE *
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
$1,750,000.
PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.
COFFEE thanks, Ella
admiring the scenery while enjoying his walk
PICTURES OF THE DAY
Robert le diable is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831, to a libretto written by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne. Superficially based on the medieval legend of Robert the Devil, it is regarded as one of the first French grand operas. This illustration depicts the set design by Pierre-Luc- Charles Cicéri of the opera's third act, known as the Ballet of the Nuns. |
Hosanagara, Karnataka, India
knit
thanks, Charlotte
knit
thanks, Vicky
crochet
PANTRY RECIPE thanks, Debbie
CROCKPOT RECIPE thanks, Carol
Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.
SWEETS RECIPE thanks, Abby
ADULT COLORING
CRAFTS thanks, Zoey
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH .. medium
| apparition brace buckle cattle cluster coup | effect elderly elliptical enjoyable exhausted fade | involve machine massive occasion | perform pickle pillage respite righteously | science shuffleboard transmitted wall wont |
SUDOKU
solution:
What’s The Craziest Or Most Out-Of-Character Thing You’ve Ever Done?
QUOTE thanks, Sofia
CLEVER
OPTICAL ILLUSION
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