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light snow Active Fire: 212 miles away Risk of
Fire: Very Low Nearest lightning: 392 miles away Nov. Averages: Temps: 53°\25° Moisture: 4 Days
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Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
Thoughts for
the day
A day of snow. I woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground. It
snows, then rains, then snows again. Roads are good now, but will have black
ice tonight.
I had a nice lunch and good conversation with Andy and Faith.
Mary and Mike are in Phoenix. She just had cataract surgery. She paid a
higher price for a lab-grown lens. When she did her checkup, she could read the
bottom line of the eye chart without any correction. She is very happy.
I watched part of the Dick Cheney funeral. The news says that Trump was
not invited. I was never a big fan of the jobs he did in the government, but I
am understanding knowing that he spoke his beliefs and carried them out. It was
obvious that his kids and grandkids loved him so much.
History that is not true…
Castles poured boiling oil off
their battlements
Even by the standards of medieval
warfare, sieges were brutal affairs. Attackers would bombard ramparts with
complex siege engines like trebuchets and ballistae, tunnel beneath
fortifications to undermine their foundations, and set up perimeters to
starve out garrisons over months or even years.Defenders would fire
crossbow bolts through arrow slits, dig ditches to hamper ladders and siege
towers, and construct tunnels of their own to maintain their crucial water
supply. There aren’t many things that didn’t happen during
medieval sieges, but pouring boiling oil from the battlements – a Hollywood
favorite – was exceedingly rare.
Oil was valuable, difficult to use, and usually in short supply, so it would
have been an expensive and cumbersome addition to a fortress’s
arsenal. As a rule, ancient and medieval warfare was a lot less elaborate than
pop culture would have you believe, particularly during sieges when resources
were scarce. Why bother raiding your depleted kitchens for cooking oil when you
could simply scald your enemy with boiling water, or, better
still, clonk them on the head with a rock?
Myths people still believe about
Native Americans…
Native Americans don't pay
taxes
The reality is complex and
depends on the person’s location, where they reside, work, and earn money.
Native Americans are federal
income taxpayers. They also pay state taxes
while working off the reservations.
The earned income on trust
lands (property held by the federal government as a reservation) can be tax-free;
however, one will miss out on services supported by such taxes, such as road
repairs or emergency care.
Random Thoughts…
The first
person to inhale helium was probably so relieved that the effects wore off
quickly.
Biting
your tongue while eating is a perfect example of how you can still screw up,
even with decades of experience.
What if
déjà vu is just you losing a life and starting again at the last checkpoint?
The
internet almost killed the postal service with email and then made it more
necessary than ever with online delivery.
Historic Events
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