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February’s full Moon is traditionally called the Full Snow Moon because usually the heaviest snows fall in February.

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From The Old Farmer’s Almanac

February’s full Moon is traditionally called the Full Snow Moon because usually the heaviest snows fall in February.

February’s full Moon is traditionally called the Full Snow Moon because usually the heaviest snows fall in February.

Hunting becomes very difficult, and so some Native American tribes called this the Hunger Moon.

Other Native American tribes called this Moon the “Shoulder to Shoulder Around the Fire Moon” (Wishram Native Americans), the “No Snow in the Trails Moon” (Zuni Native Americans), and the “Bone Moon” (Cherokee Native Americans). The Bone Moon meant that there was so little food that people gnawed on bones and ate bone marrow soup.

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January 2015: The Full Wolf Moon

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The Full Wolf Moon will be 100% full Jan 4 at 8:54 P.M. Las Vegas time.

Full Moon Names
January is the month of the Full Wolf Moon. It appeared when wolves howled in hunger outside the villages. It is also known as the Old Moon. To some Native American tribes, this was the Snow Moon, but most applied that name to the next full Moon, in February.

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Watch a Green Comet Streak Across the Sky for Christmas

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Comet Lovejoy
Comet Lovejoy

Andrew Fazekas for National Geographic
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 24, 2014

Watch a Green Comet Streak Across the Sky for Christmas
Comet Lovejoy is brightening faster than expected, putting on a show you can see for yourself this holiday season.

Just in time for the holidays, the skies are serving up a special cosmic gift: a brightening comet that may not have been in our part of the solar system for nearly 12,000 years. Continue reading →

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Black-on-white crime in America

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Crime scene tape

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Article by: JASON LEWIS Updated: September 14, 2013 – 4:29 PM

When Daniel Patrick Moynihan zeroed in on the disintegration of the nuclear family as the root cause of African-American poverty and crime in the mid-1960s, the out-of-wedlock birth rate for black Americans was 25 percent.

Today, after a civil-rights revolution (culminating in the election of the nation’s first African-American president) and $15 trillion spent on a feckless war on poverty (the official poverty rate hasn’t budged), more than 70 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock.

Consequently, unemployment and poverty remain far higher for blacks than for the rest of Americans. More disturbing, however, is the elephant in the living room that no one in the public eye seems interesting in addressing — appalling levels of crime committed by young African-American males. Continue reading →

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Stardust Coming Back (sort of,) And More Online Gaming News

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UPDATE 12/2/14
You CAN play in the US. Sign up here:

From September 16, 2013 at 3:57 PM | by eastcoastgambler at vegaschatter.com

The Stardust casino is making a comeback of sorts. You may remember Stardust in its physical form on the north end of the Vegas Strip in the 70s through the 90s. Well, Stardust is making a comeback online and, specifically, on Facebook.

Stardust Coming Back
Stardust Coming Back
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Man Walks Into Burning House and Rescues Stranger

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From http://abcnews.go.com/

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The video — showing flames and panic, a house engulfed by fire — circulated around the world.

A resident was trapped inside the burning Fresno, California, home, when a man wearing a blue Los Angeles Dodgers cap calmly walked amid the flames and carried the man to safety. Continue reading →

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Columbus Day 2014: Presidential Proclamation — Columbus Day

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Columbus
Columbus

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary

Presidential Proclamation — Columbus Day,

COLUMBUS DAY, 2014 [Monday, October 13, 2014]

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

When Christopher Columbus — a son of Genoa, Italy — set sail across the Atlantic, no one could imagine the profound and lasting impact he would have on the world. In search of a westward route to Asia, he instead spotted the Bahamas. As dawn broke on October 12, 1492, Columbus’s crew set foot on a Caribbean island and changed the course of history. For much of Europe, this marked the discovery of the New World, and it set in motion the more than five centuries that have followed. Continue reading →