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Naturalist's Almanac: SEPTEMBER 22: FRENCH REVOLUTION

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September 22, 2000. SEPTEMBER 22: FRENCH REVOLUTION. Posted by Gale : 5:08 PM. Comments: Post a Comment.

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Naturalist's Almanac: DECEMBER 26: KWANZAA

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December 26, 2000. Most of our celebrations are so old and have such highly evolved traditions that it's difficult to remember exactly why we do what we do. The African American celebration called Kwanzaa offers us an opportunity to observe a new tradition in the making. In the year 2000, it is only 34 years old. Anyone who feels stressed by the excesses of Christmas and the New Year can learn from the values emphasized during Kwanzaa. Perhaps in inventing a new tradition, Maulana Karenga has invited...

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Naturalist's Almanac: DECEMBER 24: NORTH POLE

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December 24, 2000. DECEMBER 24: NORTH POLE. It's no wonder that during the Christmas season Santa Claus wants to leave home and travel around a bit. In December, the North Pole has to be one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. It's also cold as in totally frozen. Because there's no land at the North Pole, Santa had to build his workshop on ice. The polar ice pack is a jumbled mass that cracks, jams, melts a bit, and refreezes, creating a surface that's difficult to navigate. Furthermore, if Santa g...

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Naturalist's Almanac: NOVEMBER 11: ST. MARTIN'S DAY

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November 11, 2000. NOVEMBER 11: ST. MARTIN'S DAY. November 11 is St. Martin’s Day, a day devoted to Martin of Tours, a popular fourth century bishop known for his humility, charity, and kindness to beggars. Because November is a time of seasonal change, numerous weather beliefs have become associated with his saint’s day. Some of their new neighbors believed that pleasant fall weather was a gift sent by a benevolent god who lived in the Southwest. The Narragansetts, who lived in what is now Rhode isl...

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Naturalist's Almanac: SEPTEMBER 9: HURRICANES IN SEPTEMBER

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September 09, 2000. SEPTEMBER 9: HURRICANES IN SEPTEMBER. Posted by Gale : 11:47 AM. Comments: Post a Comment.

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Naturalist's Almanac: NOVEMBER 2: FLOOD OF 1927

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November 02, 2000. NOVEMBER 2: FLOOD OF 1927. I cross Vermont's Winooski River or drive along it almost every day and consider it a friendly river. But in 1927 it was decidedly unfriendly. That year was rainy, October was exceptionally rainy, and by early November the Winooski was ready to flood. The 1927 flood was so devastating that both state and federal governments became involved in local clean-up and repair. Some smaller railroads were eliminated, many dirt roads were blacktopped, and flood-con...

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Naturalist's Almanac: NOVEMBER 22: THANKSGIVING CORNUCOPIA

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November 22, 2000. NOVEMBER 22: THANKSGIVING CORNUCOPIA. Posted by Gale : 7:17 PM. Comments: Post a Comment.

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Naturalist's Almanac: DECEMBER 21: WINTER SOLSTICE

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December 21, 2000. DECEMBER 21: WINTER SOLSTICE. The winter solstice occurs around December 21-22 every year and confronts me with a night that lasts so long that some primitive part of my brain wonders if the sun is ever going to rise again. At this time of year I walk up and down my road, looking at the sun from various angles and at different times of day, trying to understand textbook explanations of what’s happening. But why are the days so dark and the nights so long? Windows to the Universe. This ...

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Naturalist's Almanac: SEPTEMBER 21: HURRICANE OF 1938

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September 21, 2000. SEPTEMBER 21: HURRICANE OF 1938. Many older Vermonters still remember the Hurricane of September 21, 1938. One friend told me her grandmother gathered the family around her, assigned parts, and conducted a dramatic reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Another friend remembers trees being down on all the roads that led to his school. So when the hurricane made landfall on Long Island in the middle of the afternoon on September 21, it caught people enjoying a warm fall day at the beach...

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Naturalist's Almanac: AUGUST 10: THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

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August 10, 2000. AUGUST 10: THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. With the school year about to begin, August 10 might be a good time to think about the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." Thanks to a wealthy English scientist who died without heirs, we've had a national institution dedicated to that purpose since August 10, 1846. Some of the natural history treasures that Smithson, who was a chemist and mineralogist, would have especially enjoyed are the world's oldest fossil, some moon rocks, and the Hope Di...