On the Nature of Things | Forum

Typhoon wrote:Happy Nowruz | نوروز | to Mrs. Obama and yourself.

Nonc Hilaire wrote:

. . curiously enough, Sunday’s message was not in Persian as it was in 2013. Rouhani meant it on Sunday for the consumption of the ‘international community.’ A cursory look at the American and Israeli media would show that he scored a PR hit.

Indeed, the Islamic regime is doing well to project ‘soft power’ into the American Jewish homes. Rouhani’s outreach takes into account the American Jewish community’s larger-than-life influence.

. . . the first Canadian Thanksgiving is often traced back to 1578 and the explorer Martin Frobisher. Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean, held his Thanksgiving celebration not for harvest but in thanks for surviving the long journey from England through the perils of storms and icebergs. On his third and final voyage to the far north, Frobisher held a formal ceremony in Frobisher Bay in Baffin Island (present-day Nunavut) to give thanks to God and in a service ministered by the preacher Robert Wolfall they celebrated Communion.

Black Friday 2015: Brutal fights break out in American malls as shoppers clash over best deals

Typhoon wrote:The best part is that Gallerie in Osaka
specializes in high end fashion for young women.

Typhoon wrote:The best part of Black Friday is that it is a wonderful day to travel by air in the USA. ORD is mostly deserted.

Back in the USA.

The Midwest.

Always a pleasure to be back.

YMix wrote:Actually, happy Moș Nicolae.

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We don’t want anybody else. There’s nobody else, could you do the last cover of Playboy ?

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Anderson was the magazine's first and only choice, making this her 14th cover, a Playboy record

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