Listening to a story on the radio over Alexa about a scriptwriter too busy to play with his daughter and so he tells Alexa to play some Disney songs. I thought "Oh, no!" and I cringed, expecting some of the sappier songs from the 50s and 60s. All the Alexas in my home switch over to "I can't wait to be King" from the Lion King, followed by Hakune Matata, which sounded a lot better than the Disney I remembered.
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Treasure hunt with Melissa Yi
Author and physician Melissa Yi (Yuan-Innes) wearing blue male monarch butterfly wings.
She organized a treasure hunt with hidden clues in the room - lots of fun!
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
A History Of Salem Church And The Summerstown [Ontario, Canada] Area, Mabel MacLean, 1975
This is a pdf of a self-published book by Mabel MacLean. It gives a history of Salem Church and the Summerstown area. The first minister was John Bethune, a loyalist originally from the Isle of Skye who was a chaplain with a loyalist regiment in South Carolina, and came to Canada after being a prisoner of war during the American revolution. His great-great-grandson was the famous Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune. A History Of Salem Church And The Summerstown [Ontario, Canada] Area, Mabel MacLean, 1975
Sunday, November 20, 2022
No, that's not a Nazi era mandatory "Health Pass"
Image source AKG Images
This has been promoted by antivaxxers as a Nazi era "Health Pass" that Germans had to have to get into places like shops, and has compared to proof of vaccination that were required for admission to some places during the height of the COVID-19 epidemic. It really is a card for members of the Nazi Party (clearly written around the swastika and on the second line as N.S.D.A.P.) that let them access their party's health program (even health spas) - all the examples I found didn't even have anything that showed the bearer had been vaccinated. Carrying the card wasn't mandatory for anybody, and it is really a log book that showed visits the bearer made to medical facilities. The word 'Gesundheitspass' can be used for things like books for diabetics to monitor their own health or even for taking care of pet rabbits. The Nazi Party's Das Hauptamt für Volksgesundheit (Main Office for Public Health) ran it, and the office did have a much more sinister function of 'racial hygiene' - purifying the party of members that had Jewish or other 'non-Aryan' ancestry, but this was done with other documentation than this card.
'Gau Hamburg' was from a Nazi revival of an archaic word used to divide the Nazi Party in Germany into administrative districts. Each Gau was lead by a Nazi party 'Gauleiter'.
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