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Northern Hawk Owl in Northern NH
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The military is making WMDs but can't get the slides presented properly.
I believe it's referring to a barn dance They were popular at the time of the strip, except in this case, the band booked a barn dance with actual barn animals. I think the drawing style looks different because this is an early one, 1981.
It's a very old nursery rhyme dating from 1744. There are variations, but it's basically this:
Ladybug! Ladybug! Fly away home. Your house is on fire. And your children all gone.
All except one, And that's little Ann, For she crept under The frying pan.
No foot longs!
Cows are often described as content, with phases like "chewing contentedly on its cud."
Tom Bombadil
I homeschooled my kid k-12. When I started, I had no idea how many religious hs-ers there were. I used a secular curriculum, and never even thought about teaching anything regarding religion one way or another. Once I started looking around at all the creationist curricula out there--yikes.
Anyhoo, long story short, my son went on to a college degree (he actually started college classes online at 15--one of the perks of hs-ing for us), and he's an atheist. Secular homeschoolers do exist!
ETA some links--these are a few secular homeschool curricula. There's a lot more out there, but this is the majority of what I used through the years:
https://www.calverthomeschool.com/
https://www.keystoneschoolonline.com/
https://www.thinkwell.com/ (Primarily math--the professor that does most of the math instruction is wonderful.)
When I sit in a chair and cross my legs, I tuck the foot of the top leg behind the ankle of my bottom leg, so the legs are kind of wrapped around each other.
The uniforms suggest that this is a (fictional) scene from The Battle of Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand. General Custer and his cavalry were soundly defeated by the combined Indian tribes with whom they were battling. The note on the arrow suggests that it was sent by one of the Indian warriors. Rather than heed the very graphic warning, they chose to mock the spelling.
My high school English teachers are screaming in my head that it's "My twin and me."
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Spooky The Great Horned Owl
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UPI Archives April 7, 1989 Spooky the Owl dead at 38
BOSTON -- Spooky the Owl, the 38-year-old mascot of Boston's Museum of Science and the oldest great horned owl in captivity, has died after a career that included 25,000 performances before delighted crowds.
Spooky, whose antics were seen by about 30 million visitors, was brought to the museum as a hatchling in 1951 and quickly became a major attraction. Officials said he died at the museum Wednesday.
'The museum has lost a very good friend. He certainly did more than his share of working here over 38 years. Spooky and the folks who acted as his interpreters did a fabulous job in teaching folks about owls. He is certainly a bird that is going to be missed,' Lewis Stevens, coordinator of the museum's Live Animal Center, said Friday.
Great horned owls normally live only 10 years in the wild. Spooky was known for sitting atop a lecturer's shoulder and turning his head 180 degrees while keeping his body motionless.
'He was a very noble bird,' Stevens said. 'In my 15 years of working with animals, on a scale of 1 to 10, he would rate a Number 10.'
The great horned owl is a powerful bird of prey. One born and raised in the wild could inflict serious damage on humans with its powerful bill and talons.
But Spooky was hand-reared after he was brought to the museum when he was three days old.
'The constant human attention that he got over the years is what made him a very tame animal. He liked to work with people,' Stevens said. 'It wasn't as much a matter of training Spooky as training people to work with Spooky. Chances of finding another owl with the same temperament are very slim.
Spooky, who had done more than 25,000 performances, was taken last week to Angell Memorial Hospital for a liver scan and was later returned to the museum.
The Sword in the Stone, perhaps.
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