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Carol H Tucker
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It's still fall
Today is the 2nd day of the 47th week, the 19th day of the 11th month, the 323rd day of 2018, and:
- "Have a Bad Day" Day
- American Made Matters Day
- Equal Opportunity Day
- Gettysburg Address Day
- International Men's Day
- National Blow Bagpipes Day
- National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day
- Play Monopoly Day
- Rocky and Bullwinkle Day
- Women's Entrepreneurship Day
- World Philosophy Day
- World Toilet Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1802 – The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (Present day Belize)
1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1969 – Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1990 - The pop duo Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy Award after it was revealed that neither performer sang on the group's records.
1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player to win four Most Valuable Player awards.
2006 - Nintendo’s first video game console with motion control, the Wii, is released.
2007 - Amazon.com Inc. introduced the Kindle, an electronic book-reading device.
Last Thursday, this area was hit with the first nor’easter of what promises to be a miserably snowy winter. The weather patterns that have given the area its wettest weather since 1876 when record-keeping started seems to be firmly in place, with the addition of a polar vortex or two to turn on the snow-making machine. And yet, the reason that snowstorm was so remarkable was it was still autumn in many minds and a sigh of relief was heard as the couple of inches that accumulated quickly melted in the rain the next day.
It got me to thinking – when do you feel like fall is over and it is winter?
Getting the technical definitions out of the way: Meteorological winter starts on December 1st and runs through February 28th [or 29th], quartering the year in tidy little three month packets for each season. Astronomical winter runs from the winter solstice [varying from December 20th to the 23rd] to the spring equinox [varying from March 19th to the 21st].
But I’m not talking about what the weatherman or the astronomers say, but how we feel. To me? Halloween is definitely a fall holiday, and so is Thanksgiving, while Christmas is definitely a winter holiday so the transition is sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Is it triggered by temperatures? Not really because I can remember odd Christmases where it was unseasonably warm as well as some Halloweens that were bitter cold for trick-or-treating. Is it triggered by advertisements or decorations? No way given that some imbeciles started putting out Christmas decorations before the Halloween candy had been sold!
No I think that for me, the trigger is the first Sunday of Advent – that is the clear line of demarcation that gives one’s thoughts a more frosty turn.
PS today there are 35 shopping days left
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