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Staghorn Sumac
Staghorn Sumac

2023-08-10 02624-tod-019504 Staghorn Sumac

NIKON D7100 – ƒ/7.1 1/200 100mm ISO200 – Mission, MN

Source: Sharpshot Nature .Com 02624-tod-019504 Staghorn Sumac

RDP Saturday: Butterflies | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

Now I have a problem. Collecting butterfly photos is a bit of a hobby with me, so which one shall I choose. We have many where I live and when they are not fluttering they do sit still for a photo. I think my favourite locally is the swallow tail butterfly with its many colours. The caterpillars like to chew on carrot plants, so if you plant carrots you are bound to get a few somewhere.

Another favourite is the peacock buttrerfly. If you have a buddleia bush in the garden, you most definitely will have this visitor, although they are not calle buterfly bushes for nothing, and most of the fleuttering works of art decide to make a stop on this bush.

Source: RDP Saturday: Butterflies | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

The NY Times Published a Story about a Social Studies Class in Nebraska in 2008 | Diane Ravitch’s blog

This is quite a remarkable story. Samuel Freedman wrote in the New York Times in 2008 about a social studies teacher in Alliance, Nebraska. He wrote about a world geography class in 1993 where students learned about genocide. Their teacher was Tim Walz.

After studying the circumstances that set the climate for horrific mass murder, Mr. Walz gave a final exam in which the students identified a country where genocide might happen. They picked Rwanda. Mr. Walz was a good teacher…

Source: The NY Times Published a Story about a Social Studies Class in Nebraska in 2008 | Diane Ravitch’s blog

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♫ The Winner Takes It All ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

Meryl Streep recorded this song in just one take for the ABBA-themed jukebox musical movie, Mamma Mia! Ulvaeus told The Telegraph: “Meryl Streep is a goddess. And at first we couldn’t believe that she wanted to do it. I was completely taken by surprise when I saw her performance in the movie. To hear her delivering the songs with all the emotion we put in the lyrics is more than we could have dreamed of.”

This song charted at in the UK, in the U.S., and as far as I can tell did not chart at all in Canada.

The Winner Takes It All

ABBA

Source: ♫ The Winner Takes It All ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos — ProPublica

“Eradicate climate change references”; only talk to conservative media; don’t leave a paper trail for watchdogs to discover. In a series of never-before-published videos, Project 2025 details how a second Trump administration would operate.
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election