A place to show some of the odd/weird stuff I run across, especially holidays.
Holidays 2021-03-22
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Holidays today are about sustainable freshwater resources, goofing off, drawing attention to the cruelty of seal hunts, feeling young even if you're not, and Bavarian crepes:
Though attracting attention to seal hunting was the main inspiration behind the International Day of the Seal, I'm going to provide a non-hunting seal picture.
As I'm wont to do, here's another of my yearly reviews. It's at least a weak attempt to stay in touch with many of you that I rarely see in person. As I explain every year , the main downside is that I really don't do very much. And much of what I do is not particularly interesting. If any of you nod off during this, at your age you probably needed the rest anyway. If you're wondering, that's dinosaur ... wearing an Ankylosaurus hoodie Health : Barring a knee replacement, I can't imagine I'll ever have a truly healthy knee, though my impression is that it was somewhat less troublesome this year. I have 2 amateurish theories about that: Perhaps the collagen supplements I've been taking in recent years has mitigated the knee problems a bit. I've also wondered whether they've slowed down my hair loss a little. It's kind of hard to say. Maybe, just maybe, I've done a better job of backing off my morning jogging when the knee starts to bec...
Holidays today are about topics like tourism, abstaining from wearing pants, roast leg of lamb, the radio, the cosmopolitan cocktail, the home brewing of beer, tubas, and encouraging an interest in space: Communications Workers' Day aka Radio Day International Tuba Day National Cosmopolitan Day National Homebrew Day National Roast Leg of Lamb Day National Tourism Day No Pants Day Space Day Communications Workers' Day and Radio Day are names for a Russian holiday about the popularizing of radio in that country. Space Day was designed to foster an interest in space among the youth of the US. Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash
The Festival of Wepet Renpet was a matter of life and death in ancient Egypt - it was held each year when the Nile River flooded, irrigating the fields that the Egyptians depended on for much of their food. It was also considered the Egyptian New Year. Since it depended on a flood, the date is an approximation. Of course the ancient Egyptians understood that Wepet Renpet had nothing to do with rain in the Ethiopian highlands; they understood that the deities Khnum and Neith were satisfied with their offerings. Photo by British Library on Unsplash
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