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Happy 159th Birthday to our neighbors to the North. [What Flag is that 07.01.2026] (World Cup Flag)
Did you know? Canada became a country on July 1, 1867, when the British Parliament passed the British North America Act. However, our beautiful flag wasn’t created until February 15, 1965, almost 100 years later. Until then, we were still flying the Union Jack. John Cabot, (Giovanni Cabo)was the first explorer to reach Canada in…
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What Flag Is that 06.30.2026
The United States Congress established Yosemite as one of the first National Parks in 1890. The word ‘Yosemite’ is taken from the First Americans word: Uzumate which means grizzly bear. White Europeans called the people who lived in this amazing place: Yosemites. When we were living in California we made sure we visited this fantastic…
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What Flag is That 06.29.2026 Independence Day, The Golden Jubilee
The island republic of Seychelles. It is composed of 115 islands found in the Indian Ocean, 1,000 miles from Kenya Africa and 700 miles northeast of Madagascar. This set of islands was known for centuries to traders who would sail past it. As is common the islands were ‘claimed’ by a number of countries. It…
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What flag is that 06.28.2026 (Boy meets girl)
“Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm More than a woman hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm More than a woman” “Now I see, now I know Who she is, more than a woman Modern day, deity, yes she is, more than a woman” “She never walked on water She never turned that water to wine But being round her, made my blind eyes see” “She brought…
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What Flag Is That 06.27.2026 – on Michael’s birthday
The State of Illinois. A midwestern state, one of the many states we have lived in. The word Illinois most likely was borrowed from the Ojibwe language by French Missionaries. The word irenwe-wa is something they heard the Host Nation people say, the French added their transliterative ‘ois’ and came up with Illinois. (The Ojibwe…
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Quote # 142
“Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.” Frederick Buechner
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Quote # 140 [Keeping it together]
“But try this simple test: Stand still in any crowded place and watch the people around you. Within a very short time, you will begin to see love, and you will see it over and over and over. A young mother talking to her child, a couple laughing together as they walk by, an older…
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Quote # 138
Here in the going, going gone “Dark laughter on the teeter-totter,an old song floats across the water,I know I should pack up and move on.One-note Johnnies proliferate,the wind rises, the hour is latehere in the going going gone. My heart ain’t mine, my heart is yours –or else I left it out-of-doorslike a baseball glove…
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