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Quote

“You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.”


Anonymous


Joke

Need an ark? I Noah guy


Fun Fact

Sudan has more pyramids than any country with 255. They outnumber Egyptian pyramids by twice the amount.


Reading Fact

Written in AD 123, Chariton’s Chaereas & Callirhoe is the oldest existing novel in the world.


This ancient Greek prose romance narrates the adventures of a just-married couple, overwhelmingly beautiful Callirhoe and handsome Chaereas, whose relationship is put to a test when Callirhoe’s former suitors plot a scheme to rip the lovers apart. 


History Fact

There were “dance marathons” during the Great Depression.

 

It wasn’t exactly a means of keeping the American spirit up through the darkest financial crisis in its history, either.


These human endurance contests served as a way of giving broke married couples a roof over their head and food to eat for a few days.


The dance partners would take turns sleeping while the other propped them up and continued dancing with them.


Movie/TV Trivia

The ‘Bong’ sound/musical cue in Inception is actually the song Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf slowed down.


Movie/TV Quote

“There's no place like home.”


The Wizard of Oz, 1939


Conversation Starter

What holidays have been over commercialized?


Writing Prompt

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