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Who goes to Iceland in December?
Coming Soon: ‘In search of the Yule Cat’, a bucket list travelogue of the safest country in the world.
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What Flag is That 12.03.2025
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 12.02.2025
The Great Qing, aka: The Qing Dynasty. It was the last imperial dynasty in China, lasting from 1636-1912. After The Qing Dynasty came the Republic of China. At it’s height it had a population of 400 million. In it’s history there were many emperors and world wide shifts. The flag is the Azure Dragon on…
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What flag is that 12.01.2025
Franco-Ontarians (French: Franco-Ontariens or Franco-Ontariennes if female, sometimes known as Ontarois and Ontaroises) are Francophone Canadians that reside in the province of Ontario. The first francophones to settle in Ontario did so during the early 17th century, when most of it was part of the Pays d’en Haut region of New France. It extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian Prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, including all the Great…
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What flag is that 11.30.2025 St Andrew’s Day
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom’s land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. In 2022, the country’s population was about 5.4 million. Its capital city is Edinburgh, whilst Glasgow is the…
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What flag is that 11.29.2025
“The Arapaho (/əˈræpəhoʊ/ ə-RAP-ə-hoh; French: Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed two tribes, namely the Northern Arapaho and Southern Arapaho. Since…
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What Flag is that 11.28.2025 John Bunyan’s Birthday
Bedfordshire (/ˈbɛdfərdʃɪər,-ʃər/; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the south and the south-east, and Buckinghamshire to the west. The largest settlement is Luton(225,262),and Bedford is the county town. The first recorded use of the name in 1011 was “Bedanfordscir“, meaning the shire or county of Bedford, which itself means “Beda’s ford” (river crossing).…
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Drinking & Driving
For those of you who think/feel that the only way to celebrate a long weekend is to consume vast amounts of alcohol then believe you can drive home…since the statistics strongly suggest you wont be around to have someone say it, let me say: https://youtu.be/9Vs1s9hPCSQ?si=jsc7oXQcLVNss1EM
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On Thanksgiving 2025
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘Thank You?’” William Arthur Ward
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What Flag Is That 11.26.2025
The St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians. Original members of the Iroquois League, they are ‘The People of The Flint’ ‘Keepers of the Eastern Door’. They are part of the Akwesane Band. The Tribe spans the boarder of the US and Canada. The are located mostly on the St. Regis reservation. In 1974, 200 Mohawks…
