Tanja's Little Corner of The World
A Texas city girl in a small New England town …
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Since it is Summer time, it’s also vacation time. My family and I used to travel a lot all over the U.S. But we can’t always make it to the beach. Therefore, I make sure, we have a little bit of beach flair in our house during Summer Break. The shells come out of the boxes, and I’m “artsy & crafty”. With some flower pots, candles, paint, shells & glue many cool beach designs can be done. Here are a couple of ideas I had in the past. And Mr. Pelican approves it.
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World Environment Day (WED) is one of the more unique and special holidays because of its history and its many firsts. It was created on the first day of the first-ever U.N. conference which focused on humans and how they interact with the environment.
However, this didn’t happen overnight. Sweden first suggested having such a conference to the U.N. way back in 1968. And in 1969, the U.N. agreed that after 3 years they would have a conference in Sweden that focused on environmental issues. Interestingly enough, the conference was led by Maurice Strong, a Canadian diplomat who worked in the oil and mineral industry, who also had a soft spot for the environment.
Finally, it all came together in 1972, after 4 years of preparations and $30,000,000 later. World leaders from around the world sat together to discuss how they can raise awareness to protect our environment — and it was then WED was made. Then 2 years later, the first-ever WED was celebrated with the slogan “Only One Earth.”
“The Loud House” is an American animated television series created by Chris Savino. This Nickelodeon television show centers around 11-year-old Lincoln Loud, the middle child, and only son in a large family of 11 children. Set in a fictional town in southeastern Michigan called Royal Woods, it draws from the author’s hometown of Royal Oak.
In 2013, the filmmakers pitched their series to the network as a two-minute short film submitted to the annual Animated Shorts Program. It entered production the following year. The series is loosely based on Savino’s childhood but is mostly influenced by newspaper comic strips. “The Loud House” premiered on May 2, 2016. Since then, six seasons have been broadcast. Since its debut, the show has received very high ratings and is currently the best-rated children’s animated series on American television. The series received much media attention and earned two GLAAD Media Award nominations for its inclusion of an interracial gay married couple, a supporting characters, Harold and Howard McBride.
The news media hyped the introduction of the two new characters as a big deal, causing a rating boost. In 2017, Lincoln Loud and Clyde McBride were featured on the front cover of “Variety” as an example of characters who are diverse or made up of people of different races or genders. The sixth season of “The Loud House” premiered on March 11, 2022, and was renewed for a seventh season on March 24, 2022. Netflix released a feature film based on the series in August 2021, and a live-action television film premiered in November 2021.
Resource: https://nationaltoday.com/national-lincoln-loud-day/
Flying in a hot air balloon is one of the most adventurous ways of appreciating the science behind it and seeing the world from a different point of view. Although the celebration of Hot Air Balloon Day dates back about a decade, the history of hot air balloons traces back to ancient Chinese culture and military tactics, where airborne lanterns were released in the air as a cultural practice and military signal respectively.
Two brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier invented the hot air balloon in France and flew it for the first time in 1783. They publicly demonstrated the flight, which lasted for 10 minutes and had only animals on board. A few months later, Jean François Pilatre de Rozier became the first human to take a hot air balloon ride. In the 1950s, Paul Edward Yost, an American who invented the modern-day hot air balloon, advanced the way hot air balloons operate. His invention saw the addition of a propane burner engine to the hot air balloon which generates and pumps through the mouth of the envelope (balloon). During the test, the balloon flight lasted for an hour.
Hot Air Balloon Day presents an opportunity to glorify this mode of aviation and to increase awareness of flight transportation. Hot air ballooning is currently used recreationally, even though inaccessible to many. It has also been customized into different shapes, sizes, and beautiful colors.
The Gulf fritillary, Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus), is a brightly colored butterfly common across extreme southern portions of the United States. At home in most open, sunny habitats, it frequents roadsides, disturbed sites, fields, open woodlands, pastures, yards, and parks. It is a regular in most butterfly gardens, including those in more urban settings.
The Gulf fritillary occurs southward throughout the southern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies to South America. In Florida, it can be found in all 67 counties. The butterfly undergoes distinct seasonal movements each year. Adults move northward in spring and form temporary breeding colonies throughout the southeast. Individual vagrants may occasionally reach into the central U.S., but rarely into the Midwest. Starting in late summer and continuing through fall, many adults migrate southward into peninsular Florida. Adults overwinter in frost-free portions of their range.
The Gulf fritillary produces multiple generations each year. Adults may be found in all months of the year throughout much of Florida. Adults have a quick, erratic flight but are easily drawn to nearby flowers. Females lay the small yellow eggs singly on or near leaves, stems, or tendrils of purple passionflower (Passiflora incarnata L.), corky stem passionflower (Passiflora suberosa L.), yellow passionflower (Passiflora lutea L.) and several other passionflower vines. The larvae are bright orange with numerous black, branched spines. Larvae may feed on all parts of the plant and can rapidly defoliate host vines. The pupa is mottled brown and resembles a dead leaf. Adults overwinter.
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/gulf_fritillary.htm
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