Tamara P. Duvall a décidé d' écrire à Ò[lace-chat] US Christmas of old?Ó.
[2004/11/24 04:54]
Which brought a question to my
mind...
1) US had been settled - mostly - by immigrants from England and
environs (now UK), who started pouring in, in mid 17th century,
fleeing religious
I have today received emails from *three* people who haven't yet
received their November Secret Pal packages - each one to or from
Australia! Is there a problem with the Aussie postal service?
As this is the last exchange of the round and everyone should have
identified themselves I wouldn't
Hi everyone and Tamara who wrote:
Yes, I do know we still have the Thanksgiving hurdle to tackle (I
assume the Canadians are over that pain; my understanding is y'all
celebrate a week earlier than we do...
in the month previous, and 6 weeks earlier ;)
I have a letter c. 1880 written by a
Thanks to all who replied to my daughter's question about the push pin game.
Tonight she told me that she did a further google search and came up with
Arachne as a source of information. :-)
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
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In a message dated 11/24/2004 8:35:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Being
dumped here as criminals (early Virginia)
My impression is that the settlers in Jamestown were the younger sons of the
aristocracy who had to seek their fortunes due to the English law of
On Nov 24, 2004, at 18:50, Bev Walker wrote:
Yes, I do know we still have the Thanksgiving hurdle to tackle (I
assume the Canadians are over that pain; my understanding is y'all
celebrate a week earlier than we do...
in the month previous, and 6 weeks earlier ;)
Thanks to all Canadians - Bev,
On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, at 10:15 PM, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
What's U.E.L. type people?
The United Empire Loyalists were people living in what became the U.S.,
who supported the British during the American War of Independence. I
think they're called 'Tories' in U.S. history books.
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/christmas/trees.html
I've browsed through several websites, many of which seem to have lifted
their text wholesale from somewhere, and a good chunk of them point to
Prince Albert's tree.
I can believe that -- England and English customs had a
I do seem to recall history lessons on how John Smith had to enforce
the rule He who does not work does not eat in order to counteract
the high-falutin' ideas of some of the immigrants. At first, there
was too much work to do for anybody to stroll about in fancy clothes
all the time.
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I bought a t-shirt for DD Helen on Norfolk Island in July - and found that
her usual size - medium, was tiny, so had to get her XL.(or was it XXL?) I
warned her not to have a fit when she saw the size on the label I
think it just fitted her about right, so going by the size label is
One of my forwardees, amused by my ignorance of who Borowitz might
be, sent me the following (apparently, she's subscribed for a daily
dose. Which I think might be too much for me. I liked Art Buchwald too,
but there's a limit...)
At least, this time, I knew straight off it was a spoof - I saw
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