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Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Good hard American-style work for all.
Lucky, each and every.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Sauk Chief Makataimeshekiakiah, or Black Hawk
Charles Bird King - McKenney, Thomas Loraine and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with
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Commentary
Thursday, August 29, 2019
So Kat has been at home since Sunday.
Here it is Thursday morning and we are setting out at 7.00am on an approximately seven-hour road trip to Swarthmore.
We’ll stay overnight there and then move Kat into her room as soon as the dorm opens on Friday morning.
I’ll move out of the hotel.
We’ll head into Philly in the afternoon.
In the evening, we hope to meet with Howard and Melissa for dinner at one of H’s fav restaurants.
His choices are always spot on.
I will drink an expresso after dinner and then Kat will drive us back to Swarthmore.
I’ll drop her off and then, slightly after 9.00pm, head out on the road to Boston.
My goal is to get past NYC and then find a $100.00 room soon after.
I’ll wake up early as is my wont and be back on Boston on Saturday before noon.
Kat will start her Junior Year.
I will continue to work on my blog and videos.
And Lauren will move into Kat’s room to finish her last semester of at the University of Massachusetts, where they have been working her very hard.
An impressive school.
Lauren will also be in the hunt for a job following school.
Good hard American-style work for all.
Lucky, each and every.
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Tuesday’s Dinner posted on
Thursday, August 29, 2019
With two meals to prepare for Kat I chose The Gravy, served yesterday, and a Grilled Tomahawk Steak, served today.
It was gorgeous and delicious.
Here’s a picture of it.
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Publication Date: Thursday, August 29, 2019
Name: Kat Still Asks Me
Length: 2.34
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Thursday, August 29, 2019
This from Sally C:
Posted on Facebook by my favorite punster, Margaret.
Web Meister responds: Cute
Sally responds:
Not so far-fetched, though, when we consider that gold produced in bulk is called bullion. The etymologies of these words could prove interesting. Maybe the same explains why we use the same word for the meat or vegetable broth that we do for the financial investment.
Sally
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Chuckle of the day:
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Sally’s email will suffice for our chuckle.
Don’t want to get hilarious.
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Today’s Thumbnail
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Our lead picture today:
Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, (1767 – October 3, 1838) was a band leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the Midwest of the United States.
Although he had inherited an important historic sacred bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief.
Black Hawk earned his status as a war chief or captain by his actions: leading raiding and war parties as a young man, and a band of Sauk warriors during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
During the War of 1812, Black Hawk had fought on the side of the British against the U.S., hoping to push white American settlers away from Sauk territory.
Later he led a band of Sauk and Fox warriors, known as the British Band, against European-American settlers in Illinois and present-day Wisconsin in the 1832 Black Hawk War.
After the war, he was captured by U.S. forces and taken to the eastern U.S.
He and other war leaders were taken on a tour of several cities.
Shortly before being released from custody, Black Hawk told his story to an interpreter; aided also by a newspaper reporter, he published Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk, Embracing the Traditions of his Nation... in 1833 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The first Native American autobiography to be published in the U.S., his book became an immediate bestseller and has gone through several editions.
Black Hawk died in 1838 (at age 70 or 71) in what is now southeastern Iowa.
He has been honored by an enduring legacy: his book, many eponyms, and other tributes.
Massika, a Sauk Indian, left, and Wakusasse, right, of the Meskwaki.
By Karl Bodmer, aquatint made at St. Louis, Missouri in March or April 1833 when Massika pleaded for the release of war chief, Blackhawk, following the Black Hawk War.
Karl Bodmer - Prince Maximilian's Travels in the Interior of North America in 1833-1854
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
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To Sally for her sharing.
And to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of August, 2019
I collect feathers worn by Native Americans.
Always have a couple on hand to pull out as conversation pieces.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon