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  1. 37 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    I thought they showed up on the 6th of January - Twelfth Night.

     

    In Puerto Rico the tree is left up until then. 

     

    In most of Europe people leave, or did leave, their decorations up until Theophany.  

     

    Some hold that the Christmas season doesn't end until Candlemas (Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple), 40 days after the Nativity, and leave decorations up until then. There are several people around here that seem to keep to that as it's the same half dozen houses that don't put their trees out for recycling until then.

     

    We leave ours up until Theophany.

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

     

    How cosmopolitan.

     

    Might work.

    40 ml Vodka Citron

    15 ml Cointreau

    15 ml Fresh lime juice

    30 ml cranberry juice

    Preparation

    Shake all ingredients in cocktail shaker filled with ice. Strain into a large cocktail glass. Garnish with lime slice.

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  3. We don't know the number of the Magi, no number is given in Scripture.  Nor are the names, place of origin, race, or how long after the Nativity they arrived.  The number three is associated with the gifts given, as well as the Trinitarian aspect.  Some Eastern Christians put the number at 12, which also has mystic significance.

     

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  4. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/yakima-police-provide-pizza-over-160-passengers-after-flight-makes-forced-landing/U5ISZ3MCU5C3LLJ2OCLXUO5AQM/

     

    YAKIMA, Wash. — Police learned that an international flight from London was being diverted to the Yakima airport because of heavy weather on Wednesday night.

     

    There were 166 passengers and 13 crew members on the plane who all landed safely.

     

    Unfortunately, Yakima Airport does not have customs or immigration officers there, meaning the exhausted travelers would be forced to stay on the plane or squeeze into the small terminal.

     

    But after a few quick phone calls, local homeland security agents and eight customs agents came to the rescue.

     

    A trip for hot pizza soon provided the international guests with a warm meal while Delta sent a “rescue plane” to take the passengers to Seattle early Thursday morning.

     

    “Although it was probably a nightmare for travelers, team Yakima and our federal partners stepped up and got the job done with speed, efficiency, and kindness,” said a spokesperson.

     

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  5. 42 minutes ago, Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme said:

    I didn't realize the first singular purpose of a state flag was to stand apart from other state flags. I thought it was to designate your state's culture and history....... no matter what. But heck, I'm not a vexillogist. I had to work for a living.

     

    The primary function of any flag is recognition, and recognition at a distance.  

    "MAJOR! What regiment is that over on the next hill?"

    "Can't say, General.  Might be Oregon.  Or maybe Kansas, Oklahoma, or Nebraska.   Dark blue with a goldish something in the middle."

  6. 26 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

    Hmmm. How did he serve in the Navy if he was blind in one eye from a childhood accident?

     

    I've seen conflicting accounts, almost evenly split, of "despite being blind in one eye he was able to enlist" and "being exempt because he was blind in one eye, but still wanting to serve, he worked as a civilian for the Navy."

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  7. Suggested for you  ·   · 
     
     
    What is an example of a person practically falling into a movie career and becoming famous(with no prior experience)?
    There are lots of great answers to this question, so it feels a bit unnecessary to add one more. However, I’m going to do it because I love this story.
    There was this guy who was very nerdy in the 1930s. He loved bookkeeping and was quite happy working in offices. In fact, he was a terrific accountant. World War II came along and he enlisted, serving out his time NOT in the “actor’s division” in Hollywood but as an ordinary soldier. Then, at the end of the war, he mustered out of the US Navy along with everyone else and returned to his accounting practice. However, this time he opened up his own office and worked for well-heeled people in Los Angeles.
    And there the story might have ended, but one day the fellow got some bad news from his doctor. A childhood accident had deprived him of the sight in one eye, and the doctor told him he was straining his remaining eye too much. If he continued working long hours as an accountant, he’d go blind.
    Well, the poor fellow had no interest in doing anything else and no aptitude, either. Certainly, he would never be able to find another career that paid as well as his accounting gig.
    So, he moped around for a while, at loose ends. He talked to one of his clients about his problem, and the man offered him a job. It wasn’t much of a job, and he had no training in the field, but he figured, well, why not.
    The client was Jack Warner. The audiences loved the accountant and he went on to a spectacular career as a character actor playing heavies and ornery western parts. From what I have heard, he was a hell of a nice guy, too.
    Oh, one last thing. Late in his career, after he had been in films for decades, someone asked Jack Elam if he’d rather still be an accountant. “In a heartbeat,” he replied.
    Read more>>> http://tinyurl.com/3stam498
     
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  8. It wasn't like glamping.  Hard work and lots of it.
     

    Suggested for you  · Jimmy Nickels  ·   · 
     
     
    One of the earliest photos taken by the Kentucky traveling photographer, Coley Ogg. 1875-1940.
    Photo gives us a look at some of the items used at the time, and a hint how the inside of small cabins functioned.
    Notice the small cook stove has been raised onto wood blocks, makes it handier to use and easier on their back.
    Inside a young couple’s Estill County, Kentucky, log home. Circa late 1800’s.
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  9. Suggested for you  ·   · 
     
     
    Władzia Kostakówna came out of the shadows to become a beauty queen, and then stepped into the shadows to work as intelligence operative.
     Before that Warsaw girl decided to run for Miss Poland, there’d been other kinds of running in her life. WWI made her family run from the city in 1914, then the Bolshevik revolution ran them out of Crimea, and only in 1920 could the girl and her mother, having buried the father of the family and run out of all resources, return to free Poland.
     In 1920s, Władzia lived in a French convent for a few years, learned typing and stenography in Warsaw, and in 1929, when the first official beauty pageant was held in Poland, she was working for the capital city savings bank. The humble clerk ran for the sash and won, leaving behind highborn ladies, stepping into the spotlight and turning into a celebrity overnight.
     20-year-old Władzia went on to represent Poland in the Miss Europe contest in Paris, coming second, and then, she could have competed for the Miss Universe tiara or taken any movie role she wanted but didn’t. Instead, she married a Warsaw lawyer named Śliwiński, became the stepmother of his teenage son Leon and got involved in charity.
     Nearly a decade later, the Third Reich drove her family out of Warsaw, and the Sliwińskis moved to Aix-en-Provence and then Nice, where the stepson joined the Polish Intelligence and recruited his stepmother. She started out as a wireless operator, but quickly graduated to field operative, eager to scratch that itch and get even with the Germans.
     To intelligence work she brought unequalled courage and perfect sangfroid, proving that her beauty was hardly skin-deep. Several times she dodged German Abwehr or Italian OVRA and once saved her network by eating a whole address book while under custody. She got promoted to 2nd lieutenant and always refused to be compensated for her service.
     It went on until late 1944; when the Third Reich's efforts were beginning to look like flopping of a fish on a deck, the spy ring was terminated, and Władzia and Leon moved to Morocco. After WW2, she reunited with her husband, who’d served in the Navy Command in London, but the family couldn’t return to Poland, taken over by the communists.
     They settled down in Casablanca, where in 1951 the former spy received the King’s Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom aboard a British cruiser; she would also get Polish Cross of Merit with Swords and French Legion d’honneur, one of the first awarded to a Polish woman. Until her death in France in 2001, she cherished them more than her 1929 sash.
     And that, surely you’ll agree, was the beauty of it. Of her.
     
    If you feel like reading about another beautiful intelligence asset, see this post: https://www.facebook.com/ipngovplEng/posts/751123383718486
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  10. 9 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

    Many times I've heard Mom or Dad comment that someone was" so busy being a good (Insert the religion or belief that suits the person or occasion) that they couldn't find time to be a good person."

     

    "So heavenly good that they're no earthly good" as I heard a bishop say.  "Pious to pomposity" is another line from him.  

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  11. 7 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

    I still carry maps in my truck....I like seeing the over all picture and decide which way.....

     

    Texas Lizard

     

    Before a long trip through and to an area I haven't been before I like to take a map and trace out routes with different colors of highlighters.

     

    7 hours ago, czhen said:

    Rotring

     

    Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

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