22 September 2019




In 100 days we ring in the year 2020.
Sweden's Carl XVI Gustaf is the seventh monarch of the House of Bernadotte. 
Turin is the home of Vermouth.
The toponym Okanagan is Salish for 'place of water'. 
New Year's is a publisher's holiday so you can't use use last year's calendar.

Raggedy Ann was born in 1915; Raggedy Andy, five years later.
The population of Regina is 1.162 million. 
The surname Warren means 'dweller in or keeper of a game reserve.
131 years ago today, the first National Geographic Magazine appeared.
Czechs are most Praguematic. 

It takes seven kilos of uranium-235 to build a deadly nuclear bomb.
Goodwill operates 162 thrift stores in Canada and the US.
Poles feast on clear, ruby-red borscht every Christmas Eve.
This is the last day of summer.
My neighbour must be a kamikaze pilot--all his jokes bomb.

Wet burritos are eaten with a fork and knife.
Australia's National Tartan was proclaimed in 1984.
If California were a nation, it would be the world's fifth largest economy.
The average Canadian will eat 10,866 carrots in a lifetime.
The janitors' union is on strike. They demand sweeping reforms.


Food for Thought: God invented war so that Americans could learn geography. ~Mark Twain

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