OH, I love it!!! what a mix!! called “Gods garden” yeah I am doing a dance, really interesting, so glad you did share that. Told you I am a genealogy nut! as for the American Indians, I know they weren’t cannibals, but some people think otherwise a shame about the Donner Party, and only a few miles from a fort or something. my 4 or 5th great grand parent also was a whaler from Nantucket, lost at sea, don’t have much about him, his family moved to Guilford County,NC Quaker area, some moved to Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, and so on. I am working on that line trying to get some of the pieces together…
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It’s their fault for starting out too late. They got snowed in at what’s now known as Donner Lake which is about 5936 feet in elevation. It is up against a very steep escarpment and the road to get there was steep and narrow. Donner Pass is about 7000 feet elevation. It is about 50 steep and treacherous miles back to Reno. Once it snowed, the avalanches closed the road back to Reno and the pass to Sacramento. No one got in or out of the mountains until spring. Even now a winter storm can dump several feet of snow and cut people off. I know because my sister once lived up in Lake Tahoe.
One year I visited her in March and there was no snow. It started lightly snowing the night before I was going to go back home to the Bay Area.
Early the next morning I was still sleeping on my bedroll on the floor and my sister lightly kicked my foot with her toes. “You aren’t going anywhere.”
I looked at her, “Why not?”
She threw a thumb over her shoulder. Look out the window."
It was solid white outside. A spring storm came through and dumped about 8 feet of snow in just a day or two. The passes were closed.
It was so weird digging through the snow to other people’s houses. It became party city up there. Before the snow got too deep at lake level I heard a high pitched scream, 
I looked out and saw a woman on skiis hanging onto a water ski rope attached to the back of a 4 wheel drive pickup. They were driving down the road, she screaming at the top of her lungs. She was having fun. 
After a day the snow at lake level was over 6 feet deep. I couldn’t get out for about 5 days. They couldn’t clear the roads because the snow just backfilled the road as the plows went through so they had to close all the roads until the storm ended. The low road - Highway 89 along the Truckee river- was closed for about a week or so because of avalanches and the high pass to Truckee was closed too.
Me, I would never to to the Carson City powwow in winter even though the switch dance is hilarious because I did not want to cross the cannibal mountains and get stuck up there. 
I love it up there in the summer but I will never drive through those mountains in the winter if I can avoid it.
Donner Pass is super steep - about 6% or about 30 miles - take a look - Donner Pass
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great history lesson!! and never been there, but still in USA, been kinda close to it.
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Enjoy!!
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Gorgeous snow carvings! I was going to guess Quebec until I saw that flute. China?
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the pictures didn’t give a clue
Happy new year y’all!!
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Bison are running free in Indiana for the first time in 200 years
Once upon a time, prairie was the primary ecosystem in Indiana, but in the last 200 years, almost all of it has been plowed under for agriculture.
today less than 1 percent of original, native prairie remains.
There are now over 750 species of plants and 250 species of butterflies on the newly restored chunk of prairie, called the Kankakee Sands Nature Preserve.
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Hey Berlin has snow
a 65 food lava dome in Hawaii
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➤ Karijini National Park is an Australian national park centred in the Hamersley Ranges of the Pilbara region in the northwestern section of Western Australia. The park is located north of the Tropic of Capricorn, 1,055 kilometres (656 mi) from the state’s capital city, Perth. Formerly known as Hamersley Range National Park, the park was officially renamed in 1991.
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I was a Nancy Drew, and Hardy Boys avid reader 
I’m pretty sure I read every available book in my primary school library 
I solved many fictional mysteries growing up! Books 
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books were my world as well, and do give me Nancy Drew ands the Hardy boys, Miss Marple, Hurcole Perot and the rest!!
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Debie Thomas 
Hahahaha! 
Heart 
Ja!l !! It’s been a while since I’ve been 
Give it to this thread to take all my Regular’s hearts!! I’ll be back, after my hearts stock is restored 
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I thought this video was well put together. I did know most points in this video, but it was good to see it all in one place.
Video about a part of American History
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Judge Jackson in remarks: I am the dream of the slave
Mitt Romney applauds Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation
Applause erupts in Senate chamber after Brown Jackson is confirmed
Judge Jackson in remarks: I am the dream of the slave
‘‘I have come to set the captives free.’’ The words of the wise and my #1 example to follow in life
like JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON we can make a difference in other’s people life as long as we don’t GIVE UP, no matter the hurdles we step along the way…
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson quoted Maya Angelou in her remarks on the White House South Lawn following her historic confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson quoted Maya Angelou in her remarks on the White House South Lawn following her historic confirmation to the Supreme Court. #CNN #News
Source: CNN
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I stumbled over this historical information during Joseon times, it seems Joseon period is divided into 2 halves. There is the talk about the women’s oppression during the second half time of Joseon.
You can see some scenes in Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist that relate to the women’s strict laws.
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I did my history project based on this. Back then there wasn’t a lot of accurate information on the topic of geisha, especially not on the internet, but I did manage to find out what was known about the culture.
It’s nice to see that people still find the topic interesting and want to correct the misconceptions about geisha (which was also partly due to Memoirs of a Geisha).
Let’s ask Shogo regularly has videos on maiko & geiko culture as well as other Japanese culture. His videos are quite interesting and informative.
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Hanukkah In Kiel, Germany, 1932
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86-Year-Old Lao Huang, A Cormorant Fisherman Living In Yangshuo, China
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This Is Margaret Ann Neve At Age 110 In 1902. She Was Born In 1792 And Died In 1903, Making Her The First Proven Person In Recorded History To Have Lived In 3 Different Centuries
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This Is Shavarsh Karapetyan, A Retired Armenian Swimmer. In 1976, He Had Just Completed A 26 Km (16 Mile) Run When He Heard A Loud Crash
A trolleybus had lost control and had fallen into a reservoir. It was 25 meters (82 ft) off-shore and had sunk to a depth of 10 meters (33 ft). Karapetyan immediately dived into the sewage-infested waters and managed to kick the back window of the trolleybus with his legs, despite zero visibility from the silt that had risen from the bottom. Of the 92 passengers onboard, Karapetyan pulled out 46 people. 20 of whom survived. The combination of cold water and the multiple lacerations from glass shards led him to be hospitalized for 45 days. He developed pneumonia and sepsis. While he was able to recover, damage to his lungs prevented him from continuing his career as a swimmer.
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Thanks for this article… We still know little of this wonderous planet Earth 
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