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Posted on 01/28/2006 7:17:17 PM PST by alfa6
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 OR HOW TO HAVE FUN EATIN ON THE RUN With the demise of the C-rations in the early 1980s and the advent MRES the McIllhenny Company stepped up and produced an updated version of the Charlie Ration Cookbook. In 1984 The Unofficial MRE Recipe Booklet was brought out with the help of the Bettle Bailey crew to help the GIs spice up their rations. So here is "The Unofficial MRE Recipe Booklet" or "How to Have Fun Eatin on the Run"              |
LOL, it didn't work. We may have started late, but school is happening today! We still have spelling and math to do but this morning we learned about the Vikings, and read part of The Birchbark House.
The Brichbark House is a story about a girl and her family, who are Anishinabe (aka Ojibwah, aka Chippewa) living in the Lake Superior area over the course of a year.
Right now, Karateboy is amusing himself learning about the human body.
Bittygirl is down for a nap, and PE is wanting to be lazy and sleep all day (I figure he has earned it, except that I need him to babysit for me tonight).
Bittygirl waltzed up to me earlier taking in deep breaths and loudly exhaling. Immediately I knew something was up.
This morning I gave PE some lemon-honey tea, sudafed, a tylenol, and a lemon-honey-menthol cough drop. He set the cough drop on his bedside table and went to sleep. Bittygirl found his coughdrop, unwrapped it and was sucking on it, aside from the fear factor my mom alarm set off, it was pretty funny. She was experiencing the menthol-action of the drops.
I took it from her and threw it away. She must have just popped it into her mouth because it was almost fresh from the wrapper.
Oh poor little girl. No harm done thank heavens.
Evenin' ladies.
muh head hurts
Oh PE, go back to bed and sleep some more. So sorry.
That would have scared me! Hope everyone gets better soon.
I'm enjoying both!
xoxoxox
Something I recall reading about the Northmen, it wasn't that they were so much tougher, warlike, bloodthirsty than other barbarian tribes, it's who they attacked, they only people that really knew how to write at that time.
It's not for nothing that we have the word Vandalize
(Yes I obess on this time period)
http://www.friesian.com/germania.htm
http://www.roman-empire.net/articles/article-016.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15268b.htm
http://www.fernweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mf/index.html
Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, A.D. 400-700 (Paperback)
by Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080612511X/qid=1138856402/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-1115817-9291128?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
And for FUN (nothing beats fun for having a good time)
THESSALONICA
Harry Turtledove
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671877615/qid=1138857053/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-1115817-9291128?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
2. The first Aquarium opened in Chicago, 1893.
3. The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885.
4. Home to the Chicago Bears Football Team, Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, Chicago Bulls basketball team, Chicago Cubs and Chicago Whitesox baseball teams, Chicago Fire soccer team.
5. The first Mormon Temple in Illinois was constructed in Nauvoo.
6. Peoria is the oldest community in Illinois.
7. The Sears Tower, Chicago is the tallest building on the North American continent.
8. Metropolis the home of Superman really exists in Southern Illinois.
9. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site--most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico
10. Illinois had two capital cities, Kaskaskia, and Vandalia before Springfield.
11. The NFL's Chicago Bears were first known as the "Staley Bears". They were organized in 1920, in Decatur.
12. Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. 1865
13. On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
14. Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald's.
15. Dixon is the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan.
16. Springfield is the state capital and the home of the National Historic Site of the home of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
17. Chicago is home to the Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station, the only buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.
18. Before Abraham Lincoln was elected president he served in the Illinois legislature and practiced law in Springfield. Abraham Lincoln is buried just outside Springfield at Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site.
19. Carlyle is the home of the largest man-made lake in Illinois.
20. Illinois has 102 counties.
21. Ronald Wilson Regan from Tampico became the 40th president of the United States in 1980.
22. The highest point in Illinois is Charles Mound at 1235 feet above sea level.
23. The state motto is: State Sovereignty, National Union
24. The ice cream "sundae" was named in Evanston. The piety of the town resented the dissipating influences of the soda fountain on Sunday and the good town fathers, yielding to this churchly influence, passed an ordinance prohibiting the retailing of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Ingenious confectioners and drug store operators obeying the law, served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda. Objections then was made to christening a dish after the Sabbath. So the spelling of "sunday" was changed. It became an established dish and an established word and finally the "sundae".
25. The round Silo for farm storage of silage was first constructed on a farm in Spring Grove.
26. The Illinois state dance is square dancing.
27. Illinois has more units of government than any other state (i.e., city, county, township, etc.). Over six thousand. One contributing reason may be the township governments, which are generally six miles square.
28. The worst prison camp during the Civil War in terms of percentages of death was at Rock Island.
29. Illinois boasts the highest number of personalized license plates, more than any other state.
30. The University of Illinois Conservatory is 37 feet high at its apex.
31. In 1905, president of the Chicago Cubs filed charges against a fan in the bleachers for catching a fly ball and keeping it.
32. Chicago's Mercantile Exchange building was built entirely without an internal steel skeleton, as most skyscrapers; it depends on its thick walls to keep itself up
33. The abbreviation "ORD" for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes from the original name Orchard Field. O'Hare Airport was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare.
34. The trains that pass through Chicago's underground freight tunnels daily would extend over ten miles total in length.
35. The slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: 'Of all the radio stations in Chicago...we're one of them.'
36. In Mount Pulaski, Illinois, it is illegal for boys (and only boys) to hurl snowballs at trees. Girls are allowed to do that however.
37. In Illinois Michael is the top name chosen for boys. Emily is the most chosen name for girls.
38. Illinois is known for its wide variety of weather. Major winter storms, deadly tornadoes and spectacular heat and cold waves.
39. The first birth on record in Chicago was of Eulalia Pointe du Sable, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable and his Potawatomi Indian wife in 1796.
40. Chicago's Mercy Hospital was the first hospital opened in Illinois.
41. The first animal purchased for the Lincoln Park Zoo was a bear cub, bought for $10 on June 1st, 1874
42. The University of Chicago opened on October 1, 1892 with an enrollment of 594 and a faculty of 103.
43. New York Sun editor Charles Dana, tired of hearing Chicagoans boast of the world's Columbian Exposition, dubbed Chicago the "Windy City."
44. Comedy showcase "Second City" was founded on North Wells Street in a former Chinese laundry in 1959
45. Chicago's first African American mayor, Harold Washington, took office in 1983
46. The 4 stars on the Chicago flag represent Fort Dearborn, the Chicago Fire, the World's Columbian Exposition, and the Century of Progress Exposition.
47. The Chicago Public Library is the world's largest public library with a collection of more than 2 million books.
48. The Chicago Post Office at 433 West Van Buren is the only postal facility in the world you can drive a car through.
49. The Chicago River is dyed green on Saint Patrick's Day.
50. The world's largest cookie and cracker factory, where Nabisco made 16 billion Oreo cookies in 1995, is located in Chicago.
If it only had 2 million, it wouldn't even make the top 30 public libraries. At 8.1 million, it's number 3 on the list.
New York Public Library ..........11,445,971
Queen's Borough Public Library ..........9,237,300
Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public ..........8,582,637
Chicago Public Library ..........8,100,000
Data source http://www.libraryspot.com/lists/listlargestlibs.htm
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Regards
alfa6 ;>}
| February 2, 2006
The Best Question
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Martin Perl was asked what he attributed his success to. "My mother," he answered. "Every day when I came home from school she asked me, 'So, Marty, did you ask any good questions today?'"
David asked the best question of all: "Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle?" (Psalm 15:1). There are two words ancient Jews had for expressing the question "who?" One is similar to our usage. But David used another word here that asks, "What kind of person dwells close to God?"
The answer came in a series of character traits: "He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart" (v.2).
It's one thing to know the truth; it's another to obey it. God delights to live on His holy hill with those who are holy—who reflect the reality of the truth they believe. He loves men and women who "ring true."
This psalm, however, is not about any holiness of our own that we think will qualify us to gain entrance to His presence. It is rather about the beauty of holiness that God forms in us as we dwell in fellowship with Him.
The closer we get to God, the more like Him we will become. —David Roper
Walk so close to God that nothing can come between.
That said, according to MSN Encarta the Chicago Public Library is third for all U.S. Libraries. Because, the Library of Congress and Harvard University libraries are statistically ranked by the Association of Research Libraries and Chicago is ranked by Public Library Data Service, Chicago considers itself the largest.
Thus you get the following ranking. Largest U.S. Libraries
I checked some other listings (including yours) and the rankings are all over the map. It's a conspiracy.
Here's some library trivia while we are on the subject:
The St. Phillips Church Parsonage Provincial Library, established in 1698 in Charleston, South Carolina, was the first public lending library in the American Colonies.
I'll concede . . . THIS TIME. But in the future let's remember that ,"life is not fair . . . especially when it comes to nitpicking." You can quote me.
51. Sam grew up in Chicago. :-)
xoxoxo
I knew a guy on the Foxhole named Sam. I wonder what happened to him? ;^)
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