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Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for
the day
A nice fall day with nary a cloud in the nice blue sky.
Pistachios and Peanut Brittle have always been a Christmas snack. Thanks
to Sam’s Club, I’ve been eating them since early November. Yes, I think I’m addicted
to their unique tastes and shelling the pistachios is always fun.
Memory: on the Navajo Rez Thanksgiving is called Keshmish Yazhi, or ‘Little
Christmas’. In earlier days that was the first time kids came home from
Boarding School for Thanksgiving Break. This was usually their first trip home
since school started in September.
The BIA and other Feds built many offices, a school, and housing along
Main Street in Tuba City. The buildings along Main Street were red sandstone
brick buildings. There were office buildings and houses for the employees. Main
Street was lined with Elm trees on the BIA land. This started in the 1930’s
with WPA and continued until the 1960’s. In the past 5 years about 95% of those
buildings have been demolished with no plan of what to do with the empty land.
Some of the Elm trees had Dutch Elm Disease, so in true BIA fashion, all the
Elm trees were removed along Main Street. Anyone living in TC today has seen so
many memories erased by bulldozers that leave behind flat dirt.
History that is not true…
Cleopatra was
Egyptian
This is a
controversial subject, but we can say with confidence that Cleopatra was
not an ancient Egyptian in the way that many imagine. When the Greek king of
Macedon, Alexander the Great, conquered much of the Mediterranean and Near East
in the 330s and 320s BC, he kickstarted a three-century period of
Greek-speaking dominion known as the Hellenistic Age.
He left no
immediate heirs – his last words were supposedly, "to the
strongest" – and his empire splintered after his death. Egypt was
quickly scooped up by one of his Macedonian generals, Ptolemy, who established
a dynasty that would rule until the age of Rome.
Twelve
generations later, Cleopatra claimed the throne in 51 BC as co-ruler with her
underage brother. She was ethnically Macedonian Greek (the dynasty made sure of
this with generations of in-breeding), and her first language was Greek –
though she was perhaps the only Ptolemaic ruler to bother learning the local
Egyptian tongue too. She was born in Egypt and ruled it by birthright – whether
that makes her 'Egyptian' is up for debate – but she was not an ancient
pharaoh in the mold of Tutankhamun or Ramesses the Great.
Myths people still believe about
Native Americans…
The first
Thanksgiving was a peaceful celebration
The 1621
Pilgrim-Wampanoag feast was not a friendship dinner, but a diplomatic one. King
Philip’s War, one of the bloodiest wars in American history, disintegrated the
region within 50 years.
The myth of
Thanksgiving does not take into consideration the violence, land expropriation,
and cultural annihilation that Native people had to suffer with the arrival of
the Pilgrims.
Random Thoughts…
During a
nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance from the radius where all the
frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.
Salt is
the only rock that is socially acceptable to eat
Have you
ever said, “Hey, stranger,” to someone you didn’t know?
Humans
advocate not judging a book by its cover, but also glorify love at first sight.
Historic Events
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history
Birthdays
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90…Woody
Allen American film director and actor (Zelig, Annie Hall), born in Brooklyn, New York
88…Ridley
Scott English film director (Alien, Blade Runner), born in South Shields, England
78…David Mamet American playwright (Speed the Plow, House of Games), born in Chicago, Illinois
73…Mandy Patinkin American stage and screen actor (Yentl; The Princess Bride; Homeland), and singer (Sunday in the Park with George; Evita), born in Chicago, Illinois
63…Bo Jackson American College-Pro Football HOF running back (Heisman Trophy 1985, Auburn; Pro Bowl 1990, LA Raiders) and baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1989, KC Royals), born in Bessemer, Alabama
60…Ben Stiller American actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy), born in New York City
54…Kristi Noem, American politician, Governor of South Dakota, Sec of HLS, born in Watertown, South Dakota
47…Clay Aiken, American pop singer-songwriter (American Idol, 2003; "This Is The Night"), television personality, and human rights activist, born in Raleigh, North Carolina
American model (Sports Illustrated) and TV personality, born in Delta, Utah
40…Kaley
Cuoco American actress (The
Big Bang Theory), born in Camarillo, California |
Irish author and satirist
(Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), born in Dublin, Ireland @70…Oliver Winchester, American politician and rifle maker (Winchester Repeating Arms Company), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1880)
German historian and scholar (A History of Rome) who won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature, born in Garding, Duchy of Schleswig
@74…Mark
Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)(d.1910; heart attack) American author (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), born in Florida, Missouri
@45…John
McCrae(d.1918; pneumonia) Canadian physician, soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields), born in Guelph, Ontario
@67…Lucy Maud
Montgomery(d.1942; heart attack) Canadian author (Anne of
Green Gables), born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island
British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1940-45, 1951-55) during World War II, and writer (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953), born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
@93…1912 Gordon Parks, American film pioneering
black director, photographer and author (Learning Tree), born in Fort Scott,
Kansas (d. 2006) @95…Efrem Zimbalist Jr, American actor (77 Sunset Strip; Scruples; The F.B.I.), born in New York City (d. 2014)
@84…Virginia Mayo [Jones], American actress (The Best Years of Our Lives, Out of the Blue, White Heat), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2005)
@48…Allan Sherman, American parody singer and songwriter ("Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1973; respiratory failure)
1st African American congresswoman (Rep-D-NY) and presidential candidate, born in Brooklyn, New York
@76Richard Crenna, American actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003; heart failure)
American radio and television personality (American Bandstand), born in Mount Vernon, New York
@90…G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate felon and radio host, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2021)
@88…(Beryl) "Jack" Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter (Merv Griffin), singer (Schoolhouse Rock), and actor (Run Buddy Run), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 2019)
@75…Bill
Walsh(d. 2007; leukemia) American Pro Football HOF coach (Super Bowl 1981, 84, 88; NFL Coach of the Year 1981; SF 49ers; Stanford University 1977–78), born in Los Angeles, California
@52…Abbie Hoffman, American political activist, co-founder of the Yippies and author (Steal this Book), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1989;suicide)
@70…Paul Westphal, American Basketball Hall of Fame guard
(NBA C'ship 1974; NBA All-Star 1977–81; Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns) and
coach (Phoenix Suns, Seattle SuperSonics, Sacramento Kings), born in
Torrance, California (d. 2021; brain cancer) |
…The End for today…
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