DEAR SANTA
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This nation was once known for doing the right thing and for its compassion. Then the #MAGA Republicans turned it upside down.
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HOLIDAY DECORATIONS
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A Michigan forest is transformed into an enchanting, and illuminated holiday walkthrough featuring more than a half million lights.
GET MADAR NOT MAD
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Machiavellian Advance Detection and Resistance is a set of skills for outwitting master manipulators, especially during the holidays.
If you remain alert for manipulative behavior this holiday season, according to published reports, you’ll probably spot some or all of the following during get-togethers. Here are six common tactics:
IN MEMORY OF DAWN POWELL
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Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. She is now a perpetual NYC neighbor.
Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.
OCTOBER 15
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On this date, the world said good riddance to Margaretha Geertruida Zelle and welcomed Lucille Désirée Ball into their TV homes.
Mata Hari was executed by a firing squad consisting of 12 French soldiers just before dawn on 15 October 1917. She was 41. According to an eyewitness account by British reporter Henry Wales, she was not bound and refused a blindfold. She defiantly blew a kiss to the firing squad.
FALL FOLIAGE
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Do you live in New York City or the metropolitan area and want to know how the best time and place to plan a fall foliage train trip?
OCTOBER WELCOME
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According to published reports, Eclipses occur because the moon’s orbital path intercepts what astronomers call the ecliptic—the apparent path the sun takes through our daytime sky. Crucially, it will do so while seeming smaller in the sky (because it’s at apogee). It will therefore block only the center of the sun, causing an annulusor ring around the new moon.
FAUX VIEWS
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92 year old Keith Rupert Murdoch took direct role in Fox News 2020 election call, filings reveal, according to court filings.
Faux Views Sees a Setback in Defamation Case
A judge reportedly ruled the suit would go to trial, for a jury to decide whether the network knowingly spread false claims about Dominion Voting Systems, and to determine the amount of total damages.
SHOOTING-TORNADO-NEWS
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Mass shootings, killer tornadoes, are America's significant threat to our innocent and defenseless citizens, so Congress must act.
Write your US Senator and Representative to demand their immediate action. https://deargovernment.info/
How will the expansion of assault rifle sales and Tornado Alleys nationwide affect residents of the United States of America?
Lions and Whales
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Can you spot the difference between a killer whale and a sea lion then go on to describe their oceanic relationship in the wild?
The orca or killer whale Orcinus orca is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the most prominent member.
Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, the ability to walk on all fours, short and thick hair, and a big chest and belly. Together with the fur seals, they comprise Otariidae, eared seals. Sea lions have six extant and one extinct species in five genera.