Note to YOUNG readers.....
...from ZIP!!
If you were born AFTER 1975, don't bother reading this comic...you WON'T understand it! This comic assumes some knowledge of the "hippie" culture of the 60's, the "disco" culture of the 70's, and the administration of President BILL CLINTON of the 90's....also the fact that Clinton was preceded by President GEORGE H.W. BUSH, and succeeded by President GEORGE W. BUSH (the younger).
'Learning Opportunity'
(Click on a president's name to learn about him!)
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Elvis A. Presley-KING of ROCK & ROLL
 1960's Elvis
BORN: Jan.8th, 1935
DIED(supposedly): Aug.16th, 1977 (It has been reliably reported that ELVIS is alive and well in the year 2010 and living under an assumed identity in Danville, VA...this center picture was taken recently in a local restaurant in company of an unidentified woman!) |
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DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL
Eighteen years ago, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress, and much of the nation were swept up in a monumental debate on whether or not acknowledged gays and lesbians would be allowed to serve in the US military. Having promised in his campaign to extend this civil right to gays and lesbians, Clinton faced a difficult challenge when he attempted to fulfill his pledge, opposed as he was by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and prominent members of Congress, like Senator Sam Nunn. In spite of their opposition, Clinton pressed on, and on 29 January 1993, he suspended the former policy that banned gay and lesbian personnel from service outright. Initiated by President Carter and implemented by President Reagan, this policy had been under attack by gay and lesbian military personnel since its inception as discriminatory, and Clinton intended to formulate a new policy that would be more tolerant of sexual minorities in the US military and still preserve military effectiveness. Over the next six months, Congress held numerous hearings on this issue and included a new policy on homosexual soldiers in the 1994 National Defense Authorization Act, commonly referred to as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” |
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Moses
Born into slavery during the latter part of the 400 years Hebrews were captive in Egypt, Moses was adopted and raised by the royal family of Egypt. As an adult , he killed an Egyptian who was mistreating a Hebrew (Israelite, Jew), then fled the country. He lived 40 years as a shepherd in the land of Midian, then was called by God to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt (approx.1250 BCE).
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The cactus stores water allowing it to live year-round, and grow to great size even in very dry areas.
When it comes to surviving in a hot and dry environment, no other plant does better then the cactus. Plants that can go a long time without water in hot and arid places, like deserts, are called xerophytes – xeros, dry and phyton. Cacti have a whole suite of adjustments, which enables them to live in places where water supplies are extremely rare and precious.
If you cut a cactus open, you see a juicy, slimy tissue. This is where the moisture is stored for the dry season. The part between the middle circle and under the very green part of the plant, just under the skin, is the part allocated for the water storage and food for the plant. This is a type of spongy parenchyma and can take up to 85% of the plant's volume. This is a major adaptation in the desert. The important conclusion we reach is not that these plants adapted in a wonderful way to the extreme conditions from the desert, but that they were able to enter the desert because they developed, without any particular reason, some characteristics of preserving water. And then, after they learned to live in the desert, they only adapted more and more to the hard and difficult conditions from there and improved the mechanisms of water preserving. |
Zip and a prickly friend...
Paul poses with "Jose the Cactus" at
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Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
The Sons of the Pioneers is an American cowboy singing group founded in 1933 by Leonard Slye (better known by his later screen name, Roy Rogers).
It has been claimed that The Sons of the Pioneers is the oldest continually performing private musical group in history. Though all of the original members are deceased, the group continues. The group still performs regularly at concerts in Branson, Missouri and other locations. They live and perform in Tucson, Arizona during the winter season. Sons of the Pioneers was the name of a 1942 singing cowboy film starring Roy Rogers and featuring the group. The Sons of the Pioneers recorded songs for the John Ford movies Wagon Master in 1949 and Rio Grande in 1950, and performed the theme song for the John Ford classicThe Searchers in 1956. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" was also used in the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski (1998). |
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