One piece of News, and I’m skipping the Politics.
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Feel free to post something if you think it’s worth noting.
Here’s the only news I have to report.
This Thanksgiving is yet another historic day in high school football.
From LehighValleyLive
At 10:00AM I’m watching the 106th playing of the Easton/P’burg game. It is the longest running interstate (PA/NJ) rivalry in high school football.
It’s the Easton Red Rovers against the Phillipsburg Stateliners, now played at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field to handle the huge crowds.
I know they’re probably gonna be crushed, but……
GO LINERS!
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Wandering Views 
Not really politics, but it belongs nowhere else. From NewsMax online:
</IThe Pope says in a new book that Jesus was born earlier than commonly believed, suggesting the entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, London's Telegraph reports.
The error was made by a 6th century monk named Dennis the Small. The pontiff says in his new book 'Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives', that the monk was off by several years.
"The calculation of the beginning of our calendar – based on the birth of Jesus – was made by Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Small), who made a mistake in his calculations by several years," the Pope writes in the book which was published Wednesday around the world. "The actual date of Jesus's birth was several years before."
Dennis the Small created the current Christian calendar which has been accepted historically, although many scholars share the Pope's view that he was off by several years as no one knows exactly how he calculated the date of Jesus' birth. Most scholars believe Jesus was born between 6 BC and 4 BC.
I don’t know why this is news. We studied about that at Southwestern in 1957.
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Yeah, I’ve heard that many times.
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I believe Herod (The Great???) died before the year we call 1 A.D. Something like 3-4 B.C. according to our calendar.
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We studied about that at Southwestern in 1957.
Wouldn’t that more accurately be 1961 or later, based on the miscalculation? 😉
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Peter, calendars are arbitrary. Anything is better than the third year of King Hezekiah or in the days of Herod the king.
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By that reckoning 1957 would be the 5th year of the reign of Eisenhower.
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Not sure those of you not my FB friends can see this, but a fascinating chart:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=4775995276290&set=a.1171494246017.27200.1187837890&type=1&theater
Here’s another stab at it: http://travelphotobase.com/v/USMA/MAPH101.HTM
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Michelle, are you a proved Mayflower descendant according to the Mayflower Society rules?
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Chas @1:01 & kbells @ 1:55-
It’s too bad next year will be the 5th year of the reign of Obama, instead of the 1st year of Romney.
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I know I am not a descendant of the Mayflower. Most likely some Spanish galleon brought my ancestors to the New World and a banana boat brought them to the US.
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Speaking of that, do you know why Spain got rich in New World gold while England did not? Their ships were bigger. Yep! They had better mpg: minerals per galleon!
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One of our relatives (by marriage) who’s done genealogy said my mom’s side probably can be traced back to the Mayflower, but everything I’ve turned up on Ancestry so far seems to indicate we all stayed in the UK until some time later.
Maybe we wanted to make sure it was all going to work out over here first — that the kinks would be out by the time we set sail and arrived.
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Peter L. , Actually, Spain became relatively weak and poor due to a rigid social class system, laziness, and hubris caused in part by all that epheremal gold and silver wealth. The English settlers in America basically slogged it out with small farms, smart trade, austere Protestant liberty, and serious religion; in the long run this beat the Spanish.
Just now, America is becoming weak due to the illusion that big government, secularism and social welfare are somehow a substitute for frugality and hard work. Any nation that would elect Obama has arrived in deep manure.
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peter L….
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Someone traced mine back to French huguenots who had left France and settled in Leydon, Holland – the same place the pilgrims came from. The pilgrims had settled there after they left England in 1609. My ancestors came to the US and were given 200 acres on Staten Island in 1660. Actually the Dutch still owned New York back then and called it New Amsterdam so it wasn’t technically the US.
Other ancestors were traced back to French executioners. Before the guillotine – they had the black hoods and hatchets. I think they decided to quit after this discovery.
The land on Staten Island was sold much before Sandy. Actually I think they held it less than 50 years.
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1630 Dorchester, MA, family name of Hill, we think. Everyone else was in MD and VA, in that same 1628-1640 timeframe. DAR eligible 8 times.
I’m a first generation American on my mother’s side. 🙂
But I like what Kansas reminds us, “we’re all dust in the wind.”
And of course, I’m a grateful child of the King in real life.
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Yes I know, Sails. I am well aware that Spain was greedy and lost much of the gold by having to pay all the soldiers and sailors. Much of it ended up at the bottom of the ocean in shipwrecks.
And it was just a joke, not meant to be taken as serious history.
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Thanksgiving = a Day of Mourning.
According to a couple of my FB friends, that is. 😉
Should have fasted?
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I might add that serious academic schools focusing on English, history, modern and classical languages, sciences, and mathematics simply don’t have adequate time to teach such subjects as “health.”
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Sorry, the above was intended for the News thread.
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