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O frabjous day! Callooh Callay! One more reason to love February — it’s National Margarita Day! According to holidaycalendar.io, This day is all about celebrating the beloved margarita, which is believed to have first been created in 1938 by a...
by userexists
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 10:45 AM PST
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How do you celebrate holidays when your family and friends and traditions include bits and pieces from everything and everywhere? The year of the Dragon begins at Losar, when Tibetan thentuk soup features dumplings with surprises in the dumplings and...
by babushka
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 03:29 PM PST
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There’s a new American Christmas tradition: sit a read a book for most of the day. As in, plop on a comfy chair, chomp on snacks, take only bathroom breaks, and read for seven hours. It’s a gift we can give ourselves, and people are always giving away...
by The Tell with Christine Axsmith
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 01:30 PM PST
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While much of the non-US English speaking world is still celebrating Boxing Day, here the post-holiday has thankfully begun. This means I no longer have to listen to any Xmas music channels while in ...
by cohenzee
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on Tue Dec 26, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holy Days to you and yours. I may be an agnostic, leaning Atheist, but I do enjoy the holiday season at the end of the year. I celebrate in some fashion (I play Santa Claus for the town of Estes Park, which might scandalize...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Dec 25, 2023 at 06:16 PM PST
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
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You guys, I finally figured out the best way to give a holiday greeting without pissing someone off: wait for them to greet you! If they say “Merry Christmas,” say it back. Same with Happy Holidays or any other message of Holiday cheer. Sometimes, I...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 05:01 PM PST
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Every year since 2010 I’ve done a series of December diaries focusing on a variety of seasonal topics ranging from music to food to ugly sweaters. (Full disclosure: I did ONE Seasonal diary in 2008,
by brillig
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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The Colorado State Open Thread is headed into the home stretch of the year, where food, festivities and holidays are on peoples’ minds. Well, those who have Maslow’s hierarchy taken care of so that food, warmth shelter and space are accounted for....
by ColoTim
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 06:14 PM PST
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The Colorado State Open Thread often poses questions about our square(ish) state —�sometimes, they’re from readers to me, which I attempt to answer. Sometimes they’re from me to the readers, ...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 06:00 PM PST
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The nip in the air reminds us that, once again, that special time of year approaches, when the baby Jesus flies his sleigh around the world to give out chocolate eggs to the good boys and girls (and by “good” I mean, of course, Christian boys and...
by hellman
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on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 07:45 AM PST
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I got nothing on my brain. At least that’s what people say. Mmm-hmmm.
I’m welcoming you to the Colorado State Open Thread to share news, thoughts, and whatever else might be on your mind these ...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 06:00 PM PST
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali on Sunday with a new Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 01:30 PM PST
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From My Jewish Learning From: Judaism FAQ From: Chabad Your flavor should be represented above for a more in depth analysis. I, for one, prefer the Chabad site. The nutshell take: As told in the Bible, after many decades of slavery to the Egyptian...
by CameronProf
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on Wed Apr 05, 2023 at 09:17 PM PDT
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HAPPY ST PATRICK DAY Plat du jour Entre’ fruit en saison sur une coulis de framboise Beef & Cabbage 🥬 a’ La moutarde, accompagne’ une salades medley du concombre, poivron trois couleurs grille’ et comme desert Tarte au pomme ou Tarte Tatin(...
by Rajwantee
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on Fri Mar 17, 2023 at 02:01 PM PDT
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The Colorado State Open Thread is being written for those of you interested in any aspect of the great and noble state of Colorado in the United States of America. One doesn’t have to live here, or there, or close by. One also doesn’t have to know...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Dec 26, 2022 at 05:58 PM PST
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Welcome to the December 25th edition of Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the place where politics meets up with religion, art, science, food, and life. Come in, have a (warm!) cuppa, take a cookie or ...
by Aashirs nani
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on Sun Dec 25, 2022 at 01:06 PM PST
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I confess one of my favorite movies is the 1966 Italian spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. As the holiday season approaches, we need a list of recent good, bad and uglies. Let’s start with some good. Senator Warnock was reelected in...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Dec 18, 2022 at 12:19 PM PST
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Every year since 2010 I’ve done a series of December diaries focusing on a variety of seasonal topics ranging from music to food to ugly sweaters. (Full disclosure: I did ONE Seasonal diary in 2008,
by brillig
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on Mon Dec 12, 2022 at 07:00 PM PST
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🔥 🔥 Some Spiritual Supernatural Beliefs 🌑 Native Americans believed that powerful beings, or spirits, were present in all natural things. Invisible but everywhere, this supernatural force of the spirit world touched people,...
by Angmar
38 comments
on Fri Dec 30, 2022 at 04:00 PM PST
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