Today is the birthday, in 1620, of Peregrine White, the first known English child born to the Pilgrims in America. His parents, William White and his pregnant wife Susanna, with their son Resolved White and two servants, came on the Mayflower in 1620. Peregrine White was born while the Mayflower lay at anchor in the harbor at Cape Cod. In later life, he became a person of note in Plymouth Colony, active in both military and government affairs.
Peregrine White’s father William White died on 21 February 1621. With her husband’s death, Susanna, with her newborn son Peregrine and five-year-old Resolved, became the only surviving widow out of the many families who perished that first winter. On 12 May 1621 Peregrine’s mother Susanna married widower Edward Winslow, a Mayflower and later a Plymouth colony notable with whom she had five children, one of whom was Josiah Winslow, future Plymouth governor.
In the 1627 Division of Cattle, both Resolved [sic] and his brother Peregrine were listed in the Third Lot under Capt. Standish in the family of Edward Winslow, his wife Susanna and their sons Edward and John Winslow.
The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe
Updating the seasonal decorations…
Today is the birthday, in 1946, of American rock and blues guitarist Duane Allman, the founder and original leader of The Allman Brothers Band. They released the classic album Eat a Peach in 1972 and had the 1973 US No.12 single ‘Ramblin Man’. A sought-after session musician both before and during his tenure with the band, Duane Allman performed with King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Herbie Mann, Wilson Pickett, and Boz Scaggs. He also contributed to the only studio album by Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970). In 2003, he was ranked number 2 in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, second only to Jimi Hendrix. Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident on 29th October 1971 in Macon, Georgia, when he collided with the rear of a flatbed truck that had turned in front of him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1xjl00sbao
Today is the birthday, in 1861, of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix, was an American journalist and columnist. As the forerunner of today’s popular advice columnists, Dix was America’s highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. With an estimated audience of 60 million readers, she became a popular and recognized figure. In addition to her journalistic work, she joined in the campaign for women’s suffrage and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Her journalism career began after her neighbor Eliza Nicholson, the owner of the New Orleans newspaper Daily Picayune, saw her writing and offered her a job as a reporter. At the beginning of her career, before writing advice columns, Dix wrote obituaries, recipes and theater reviews. As was customary for many female journalists at the time, who believed that their work had the potential to cause embarrassment or poor social standing, she chose to write under a pseudonym. She first used the pen name Dorothy Dix in 1895 for her column, “Sunday Salad,” in the Picayune; Dorothy, because she liked the name, and Dix in honor of an old family slave named Mr. Dick who had saved the Meriwether family silver during the Civil War. Within months the column was renamed to Dorothy Dix Talks and under that name was to become the world’s longest-running newspaper feature.
One of her most famous single columns was Dictates for a Happy Life, a ten-point plan for happiness, which had to be frequently reprinted due to popular demand. In addition to her newspaper columns, Dix was the author of books such as How to Win and Hold a Husband and Every-Day Help for Every-Day People.
Elizabeth Meriwether-Gilmer (Dorothy Dix) as a young woman in her early 30s
How to use a rambutan…
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Bada Bing!!!
Him: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101. Us: The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
Some people are walking around who are still “it” from recess 50 years ago and don’t even know it.
It’s hard to believe I used to be 6 lbs, 7 oz. I’ve really let myself go!
NYC has shocked the world by electing a normal guy instead of a billionaire backed pervert.
Funny that people think Zohran Mamdani will force you to become a Muslim. Not a single person who’s knocked on my door to convert me was a Muslim.
Karen: I need to speak to the Manager. I want to talk to someone who knows what is going on. Employee: Ok, here is the deal, I can go get one or the other.
Trump is freaking out that his “Truth” Social AI bot went completely rogue by saying Trump lied about the 2020 election, that he was behind January 6, and failed to bring down prices… in other words, the truth.
It’s time to start calling Nationalist Christians “Nat C’s”.
Christian nationalism is just white supremacy in bible drag.
Christian nationalism is just sharia law with bacon and beer.
How do you get away with committing a crime against a deaf person? Break their fingers so they can’t tell anyone.
Have you heard that they stopped making pennies? The Treasury said they just didn’t make sense anymore.
A woman is caught shoplifting a bag of apples. In court the judge says, “I don’t usually do this but to set an example, I’m sentencing you to spend a day in jail, one for each apple. That’s a week in total.” Her husband raises his hand, “Your honor, I have to confess, she also stole a bag of rice the day before.”
New York is the exact opposite of Minnesota. New York is where the Big Apple is and Minnesota is where Minneapolis.
The battlefield quickly turned into an orgy. Cupid: Sorry! These are the only arrows I have.
I am such a loser. I once entered the Worlds Biggest Loser Competition…I came second.
An IRS inspector audits a hospital’s books. He asks the CFO what they do with leftover bandages, and the CFO says they send them back to the company for an occasional free box. The auditor then asks about leftover plaster from casts, and the CFO gives a similar answer, saying they send it back to the manufacturer for an occasional free package. The auditor, trying to trap the CFO, asks what they do with leftover foreskins from circumcisions. The CFO replies that they save them up, send them to the IRS office, and about once a year, the IRS sends them a complete dick.
Today is the birthday, in 1960 of English pop singer Kim Wilde (the eldest child of 1950s rock and roller Marty Wilde), who had the 1981 UK No.2 single ‘Kids In America’ and the 1987 US No.1 single with a reworked version of the Supremes’ song ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles that charted within the Top 50 of the UK singles chart. She branched into an alternative career as a landscape gardener, which has included presenting gardening shows on the BBC and Channel 4. In 2005, she won a Gold award for her courtyard garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3gLp6k7ZE
Today is International Students Day, an international observance of the student community, held annually on 17 November. Originally commemorating the Czech universities which were stormed by Nazis in 1939 and the students who were subsequently killed and sent to concentration camps, it is now marked by a number of universities, sometimes on a day other than 17 November, as a nonpolitical celebration of the multiculturalism of their international students.
The date commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague after demonstrations against the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and the killings of Jan Opletal and worker Václav Sedláček. The Nazis rounded up the students, murdered nine student leaders and sent over 1,200 students to concentration camps, mainly Sachsenhausen. They subsequently closed all Czech universities and colleges.
There is something about fascism that seems to inspire hate for educated people and education.
The nine students and professors executed on 17 November in Prague. From top left: Josef Adamec, Jan Černý, Marek Frauwirth, Jaroslav Klíma, Bedřich Koula, Josef Matoušek, František Skorkovský, Václav Šaffránek, Jan Weinert.
You will take a trip…
Trying to hold shit together…
Some signs….
Today is the birthday, in 1942, of American songwriter, singer, musician, and record producer Bob Gaudio. He rose to musical fame at the age of 15 as a member of The Royal Teens, who had the 1958 US No.3 single ‘Short Shorts. As a member of The Four Seasons, he wrote the 1960s hits ‘Sherry’, ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, ‘Walk Like a Man’, and the 1976 UK & US No.1 single ‘December 1963, (Oh What A Night’). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfFB5QF4iQ
Today is the birthday, in 1840, of Claude Monet. He was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style and artistic movement. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Got this from Minnesota…
NOT THE BEST OR SMARTEST DRIVERS…
Today is the birthday, in 1966, of Joseph ‘Run’ Simmons, one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group Run–D.M.C. who had the 1986 UK No.8 single with Aerosmith ‘Walk This Way’ and the 1998 UK No.1 single ‘It’s Like That’. He is also a practicing minister, known as Reverend Run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk
On this day in 1922, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that public schools could constitutionally exclude unvaccinated students from attending, even if there was not an ongoing outbreak. In the case, the school district of San Antonio, Texas enacted an ordinance that prohibited any child from attending a school within the district unless they had been vaccinated against smallpox. One parent of a student who had been excluded, Rosalyn Zucht, sued on the basis that there was not a public health emergency. Justice Louis Brandeis wrote for the unanimous court that requiring students to be vaccinated was a justified use of “police power” to maintain public health and safety.
Smallpox killed up to 500 million people before it was declared globally eradicated in 1980.
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