Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
NEW YEAR’S EVE
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Feast of Melania the Younger, 439
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Feast of Columba, virgin and martyr, 3rd century
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Feast of Sylvester I
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
What city has the largest New Year’s Eve celebration in the world—attracting more than two million people?
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Today in Anchorage
Today: Bitterly cold. Mostly sunny. High around 0F. Winds light and variable. Tonight: Bitterly cold. Generally clear. Low around -10F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. Tomorrow: A mainly sunny sky. Very cold. High 3F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Cold. Low -3F. Winds N at 5 to […]
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhkayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Feast of FRANCES JOSEPH-GAUDET
EDUCATOR AND PRISON REFORMER (30 December 1934) Frances Joseph-Gaudet (1861- December 1934), prison reform worker and educator, was born in a log cabin in Holmesville, Mississippi of African American and Native American descent. She was raised by her grandparents. Later she went to live with a brother in New Orleans where she attended school and […]
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Feast of Josephine Butler, Pioneer Worker Among Women
Josephine Elizabeth Grey was born in Northumberland in 1828. She was schooled at home, where she read English and Italian literature, and translations of the Church Fathers. When 24 years old, she married George Butler, then a tutor at Oxford. She was an early advocate of better provisions for university education for women (see her […]