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Old Professor 🌊 "Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final." -- Rainer Maria Rilke I miss my pups, Taffy & Biscuit 💔
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In Ireland it's #WrenDay, when "wren-boys" go from house to house, carrying a holly bush adorned with figures of birds, singing: "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, #StStephensDay was caught in the furze, Although he is little, his family's great, I pray you, good landlady, give us a treat."

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Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore), the Scrooge-like character in the film #ItsAWonderfulLife, was placed on the American Film Institute's "100 Years ... 100 Heroes & Villains" list as number six of movie bad guys...

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My girl Biscuit, who passed away on this day a year ago...Still miss her everyday. We'll see each other again, Little One...I guarantee it...

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Today is the #WinterSolstice, marking the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere, while last night was the longest night of the year. This has been an important event for millennia, with evidence of celebrations going back as far as 10,000 BCE.

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Today in 1860, the #SouthCarolina legislature enacted an ordinance of secession after #AbrahamLincoln was elected president, declaring that in Lincoln they detected a perceived "hostility…to the institution of slavery." Within three months, six other slave-holding states had also seceded. #CivilWar

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Birthday today of football player & coach William Walter #PudgeHeffelfinger, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1867-1954). He is considered the first athlete to play American football professionally, having been paid to play in 1892 for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann

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"For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better." - historian #CarterWoodson, born OTD in New Canton, VA (1875-1950). One of the first scholars to study the African diaspora, including African American history. R.I.P.

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Spirit of the forest...

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"Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view." -- Swiss-born German artist #PaulKlee, born OTD in Münchenbuchsee, Bern (1879-1940). Taught at the #Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture...R.I.P. Sir...

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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

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"Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point." - singer/songwriter #BillieEilish, born Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell OTD in Los Angeles, CA (2001). Eilish has received multiple accolades, including 9 Grammy Awards & two Oscars.

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Thank you #JoeBiden & #KamalaHarris and #theDemocrats. Once again, America is going to hand a robust job-creating economy to Republicans, and they will fuck it up with cuts, tax breaks for the rich, and deportation. We tried to warn you. #fafo

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Today would mark the beginning of the seven-day celebration of #Saturnalia in ancient #Rome. For the winter festival, the Romans made and exchanged gifts, decorated their homes with holly and ropes of garland, and carried wreaths of evergreen branches to honor the god Saturn.

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Blue Jay for day 16 #ArtAdventCalendar

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Because of climate change, the chances of a snowy holiday-and winter snow in general-have significantly gone down. For example, it has been 15 or more years since these cities experienced a #WhiteChristmas: New York City: 2009 Boston: 2009 Philadelphia: 2009 Newark, NJ: 2002 Dover, DE: 2002

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Birthday today of Spanish-American philosopher #GeorgeSantayana, born in #Madrid (1863-1952). He coined the famous phrase: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." He also said, "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

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This jay was chowing down at the feeder this morning, taking the nuts three at a time #birds 🪶🦉

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It's traditionally believed that composer #LudwigvanBeethoven was born OTD in #Bonn, Germany (1770-1827). When he was a teenager, young Ludwig visited Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna and played the piano for him; #Mozart later wrote to a friend: "I think this one will make a noise in the world."

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Members of the #SonsofLiberty (some dressed as Indians) threw 342 chests of tea off British ships to protest Britain's Tea Act of 1773, which gave the #EastIndiaCompany a monopoly on the American tea trade. The #BostonTeaParty brought tensions between colonists and the English government to a head.

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"Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius." -- French civil engineer #GustaveEiffel, born OTD in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Kingdom of France (1832-1923).

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