Tuesday 9/28/21
Celebrate National Drink Beer, Good Neighbor, Strawberry Cream Pie, Voter Registration, and North Carolina Day. North Carolina was one of the original colonies, and the 12th state to join the Union. It's known as The Tar Heel State. Where did the “Tar Heels” nickname come from?
The term “tar heel” dates back to North Carolina’s early history, when the state was a leading producer of supplies for the naval industry. Workers who distilled turpentine from the sticky sap of pine trees and burned pine boughs to produce tar and pitch often went barefoot during hot summer months and undoubtedly collected tar on their heels. To call someone a “rosin heel” or “tar heel” was to imply that they worked in a lowly trade.
During the Civil War, North Carolina soldiers flipped the meaning of the term and turned an epithet into an accolade. They called themselves “tar heels” as an expression of state pride. Others adopted the term, and North Carolina became widely known as the “Tar Heel State.”
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Always a great fall sight..the Woolly Bear Caterpillar! Also called woolly worms they have a reputation for being able to forecast the coming winter weather. If their rusty band is wide, then it will be a mild winter.
The more black there is, the more severe the winter.
Mike Peters, an entomologist at the University of Massachusetts, says there in fact could be a link between winter severity and the brown band of a woolly bear caterpillar. “There’s evidence,” he says, “that the number of brown hairs has to do with the age of the caterpillar—in other words, how late it got going in the spring. The [band] does say something about a heavy winter or an early spring. The only thing is … it’s telling you about the previous year.”
They change into the Isabella tiger moth.
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You could probably guess that the Marvel Universie is the most successful franchise in films. Grossing $22.59 Billion with 23 moives (and still counting.) it's by far the winner. What follows? A great list of big grossing movies to add to your watch list.
At #2 is Star Wars with $10.2 Billion over 12 films.
The rest of the top thirteen are Harry Potter, James Bond, Spider-Man (Sony), X-Men (Sony), Fast and the Furious, Lord of the Rings, DC Extended Universe, Jurassic Park, Batman, Transformers, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Live from New York, it's … a new season and a new cast of "Saturday Night Live."
Long-running cast member Beck Bennett, known for outlandish portrayals of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and featured player Lauren Holt, one of three newcomers last season, will not be returning to "SNL" this fall, NBC announced Monday.
"Love you, SNL," Bennett wrote in an Instagram post Monday. "Gonna miss you so much. Thank you for 8 years of remarkable people and incredible experiences that completely changed my life. I had so much fun."
The rest of the cast – including Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong, all of whom were rumored to be weighing an exit from the sketch comedy show – will be back.
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It's been five years since Rihanna released and album, still no word on when the new one is coming, but Rihanna has said it won't be what you expect.
She says, quote, "You're not going to expect what you hear. Just put that in your mind. Whatever you know of Rihanna is not going to be what you hear. I'm really experimenting.
"Music is like fashion: you should be able to play. I should be able to wear whatever I want, and I treat music the same way. So, I'm having fun and it's going to be completely different. That's it."
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