tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160960122024-03-18T02:14:56.093-07:00Nate's Nonsense...an eclectic blog of musings, fun snippets of interest, and historical tidbits - all for your enjoyment.Nate Maashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205088028505450499noreply@blogger.comBlogger526125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-20578035667073074672013-03-12T16:51:00.002-07:002013-03-12T16:51:36.399-07:00Hometown MoneyI've always had a love of the past and one of my hobbies when I was younger was to collect coins. Naturally, I didn't have enough money to collect anything expensive, so it was mostly pennies and some nickels. Anything much larger was beyond my means. Although I never bought anything from the coin shops, I did enjoy looking around and seeing all the items on display, so from those visits I have a little familiarity with currency also.<div>
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That's why it came as a surprise to me when I was doing an Internet search and I ran across reference to National Bank Notes. This was American currency issued by local banks with a federal charter. From 1863 to 1935, local banks could deposit bonds in the US Treasury and then they could issue currency up to 90% of the value of the bonds. The banknotes were backed by the United States Government and often resembled United States Notes and later Federal Reserve Notes.</div>
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The cool thing about these National Bank Notes however, is that the name of the local bank is prominently displayed, meaning that your local town name was found on national currency. I quickly did a look and found that a bank in my hometown of San Luis Obispo, California was one of the towns issuing currency.</div>
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<i>$10 San Luis Obispo, California, National Bank Note</i></div>
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Since the program continued all the way until 1935, the later smaller notes closely resemble the money we still have in circulation today.</div>
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The $10 bill above is from the town where I teach which at the time it was issued probably had less than 3,000 people!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com539tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-80661627702066569042013-03-06T09:51:00.000-08:002013-03-06T09:53:14.888-08:00Holland vs. NetherlandsI'm not always tracking visitors to this site, but when I do, I'm always a little surprised by the number of Dutch visitors we have. Perhaps it's my last name (Maas), or maybe it's something else entirely, but either way, I'm always happy to have visitors from the Netherlands. As I've noticed such a strong interest from that part of the world, tidbits of news pertaining to that nation now more frequently catch my eye.<br />
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That's why today, I'd like to share with you, the following video, produced by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey">Grey Explains</a>, that a fellow teacher recently shared with me. It explains the difference between Holland and the Netherlands (terms that most here in the United States use interchangeably).</div>
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A quick warning though, I get the feeling that the producer, while trying to explain things, also likes a small amount of joy in making things seem a little more complicated than they really are by talking fast and quickly displaying pictures, so feel free to pause the video or rewind a time or two.</div>
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Also, for those who are interested, I would from time-to-time, show an earlier video he produced explaining the difference between England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom (a subject that more of my students have always had difficulty understanding). A second warning: this one moves more quickly than the Dutch one:</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com133tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-12705024062560163482013-03-03T14:06:00.002-08:002013-03-03T14:23:32.641-08:00Stand By MeMany, if not most of you, are probably aware of the song from the 1960s, "Stand By Me," sung by Ben E. King.<br />
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One of the things that I think is most interesting about early rock music was its strong gospel roots with many of the biggest names getting their musical upbringing by singing in church.</div>
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Ben E. King was no different, being a regular in his church choir as a boy. Early on, King was picked up as a replacement member of the second iteration of the musical group, The Drifters. King eventually started a solo career and was recording the song "Spanish Harlem" when the producers asked if he had any other songs. King played the tune "Stand By Me" which he took from the spiritual "Oh Lord, Stand By Me."<br />
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I heard a radio interview the other day where someone was talking about the state of Christian music in the United States. He said that he found it sad that many of the Christian songs now are just romantic love songs with the girl replaced by God. I partly agree, but if you study music history, you'll find that it has happened the other way too.</div>
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If you haven't heard the original "Stand By Me" here it is too:</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com140tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-50507198236177600362013-02-22T14:09:00.000-08:002013-02-22T14:09:07.016-08:00Nate's Nonsense Will Return<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I see a number of you have noticed the recent lack of posts on Nate's Nonsense and a number of you have even taken the time to write nice letters of concern and for that I am so grateful. I wish I had a better explanation other than I became really busy.</div>
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For the past 15 years, I taught primarily history (although sometimes a few classes of math or science) at the same high school. This year, I'm teaching at an independent study high school program in our same district. I meet with six students each day, for an hour at a time. Now this sounds a lot easier than what I was previously doing, but it actually entails a great deal of paperwork. I have to prepare and teach every subject for several grades and then collect and grade the work that comes in. I had become so proficient in my previous assignment that I rarely took work home to grade, now I'm coming home with a couple hours of work each night. Because I've committed myself to so many other things, I'm finding that my job is encroaching on my free time.</div>
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Although, I do enjoy writing this blog, I always considered this to an avocation. Due to my increasing workload, I have increasingly found myself frustrated by the quality of my posts and for a time even thought about ending the blog.</div>
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Well, over the course of my unintentional break, I have received so many positive and encouraging e-mails from readers all around the world, I have reconsidered ending the blog. Although I'm not quite caught up, I hope to be so soon. I'm looking to restart the blog sometime before March.</div>
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Some of you may be wondering why I've posted a photo of Douglas MacArthur on this page. When I was trying to figure out whether I should use 'will return' or 'shall return,' I am reminded of my junior high school English teacher who always seemed to hold General MacArthur in high regard for his proper use of shall in "I shall return." Personally, I don't think MacArthur and I would have gotten along very well, but I am quite sure he and my English would have hit it off just fine.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-50643421212803053172013-01-19T06:41:00.001-08:002013-01-19T21:54:35.579-08:00If We Could Send a Man to the Moon, Why Couldn't We Fake It?When I was younger, I can't tell you the number of times someone started a gripe with the words, "If we could send a man to the moon, why can't we (insert gripe here)..."<br />
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I'm not going to repeat the claims of the "Moon Landing Hoaxers" or the hoax debunkers here, you can do a quick search and see what they're saying, but a friend sent me a link to this creative video where a photographic expert explores the issue from a unique perspective. His basic premise is, we probably had the technology to go to the moon in 1969, but we certainly didn't have the technology to fake it.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-50496748677137709472013-01-12T08:00:00.001-08:002013-01-12T08:00:43.407-08:00Technical Difficulties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-23254034008444991102013-01-02T14:30:00.000-08:002013-01-02T15:49:21.346-08:00Academic Schools and their Strange College MascotsI've never really been in the habit of watching sports on television. The closest major league team to our home is about a four hour drive and none of the local events are televised. My wife, however, is from Wisconsin. That state is crazy for their football and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison">University of Wisconsin</a> was playing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University">Stanford </a>in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game">Rose Bowl</a> yesterday, so naturally my wife watched a few minutes of the game. One of her first questions was, "If Stanford's mascot is a cardinal, why do they have a tree dancing around on the sidelines?"<br />
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So where did the tree come from? Like many academic schools, Stanford has had trouble coming up with a good mascot. Getting in the game late, it adopted the "Indian" as its mascot in 1930. At first the school had a dignified looking Indian chief with a headdress, but as so often as these things go, they later adopted a more comical looking brave dubbed "Prince Lightfoot."</div>
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Of course real American Indians were offended by the ignoble depiction and in 1972 were able to convince the school administration to drop the mascot. However, instead of adopting a new mascot, the administration declared that the color "Cardinal" (singular) would be the new nickname of all the athletic teams and that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Palo_Alto">El Palo Alto</a>, the famous landmark tree, would replace the Indian on the helmets. Not having a mascot and realizing that a color would be difficult to represent, some enterprising members of the band began dressing up in a makeshift tree costume. The Tree has now become a regular fixture, testament to political administrators inability to pick good mascots.</div>
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Other more academic schools seem to have the same problem. Take <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University">Harvard</a> for example. Their official administratively driven mascot is "John Harvard," a Puritan minister who came to America in 1637 and died the next year, leaving an endowment for a university. Of course, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard_(clergyman)">John Harvard</a> doesn't make for a very good mascot either as his surname is already the name of their university. What would they all themselves, "The Harvard John Harvards?" So instead, the popular name of their team is just Crimson for the school color. Crimson, unlike cardinal is not regularly confused for a bird. Although, when I was searching for images of John Harvard the mascot, I quickly realized that even a Harvard education cannot keep ivy leaguers from confusing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan">Puritans</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)">Pilgrims</a> (for the record, John Harvard was a Puritan).</div>
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Northwestern was for years the odd academic school in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference">Big Ten Conference</a>, having joined in 1896. Then in 1995, they suddenly had a huge year, becoming conference champions for the first time since 1936. The other schools were so used to a weak Northwestern Football team, they would purposely schedule their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming">Homecoming game</a> against that poor school (Northwestern won three homecoming games in a row in 1995).</div>
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For fun, Smedly and Nate made a large cardboard arch (one person on each side of the arch) and trotted out on the courts to rouse the crowds. I can tell you by watching them that a two man mascot is harder to pilot than a single person mascot. And of course, it didn't have a "fight song," but they did sing the school hymn, "The Christian Fellowship Song," on a regular basis, I'll reprint it below for your enjoyment:</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-47245747276634258382012-12-25T08:13:00.000-08:002012-12-25T08:13:02.439-08:00Christmas 2012I'm writing this note from my living room in the moments before the kids wake up and come downstairs. The last couple days we were up in the mountains taking the kids to the snow and what a time we had. We came right at the end of a good storm, making it to the cabin just in time before the roads became impassable and awoke to a spectacular scene of white! We came home late last night and although it is Christmas, the kids are too tired to be up yet.<br />
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Since I am usually the first to awake, I turned on the computer this morning to get a few things done. My Internet browser has a homepage set to a news site. I need to change this. In my stupidity, I browsed the recent headlines. The news is just awful. For example, in a town in New York where a friend of mine was a pastor, a man <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/24/us-usa-newyork-shooting-idUSBRE8BN0HB20121224">set fire to his house and then ambushed and killed two firemen</a> coming to put out the blaze. I was going to give a few more examples, but they're mostly depressing and terrible too and it seems as though the reaction by pundits and governments is to call for the removal of liberty in the name of "safety" and create some kind of Orwellian police state. So I checked my e-mail box and it was stuffed with e-mails (sent today) from merchants telling me how I can spend my money. They wanted to make sure that they sent it Christmas Day because the stores open tomorrow. How very nice of them (sarcasm, of course).<br />
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So the the world is messed up! Filled with selfish and wicked people. But not entirely. I recently read about a couple of English scientists that designed a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/dec/14/gravity-light-sand-powered-lamp">gravity powered light</a> in hopes of trying to reduce the reliance on dangerous kerosene in African villages. There is both good and bad in humanity and there resides in the heart a longing for a better world that should be.<br />
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This is why I love Christmas. It is a time of pause when people remember that there was a moment when God became man and physically entered our world. The Powerful One who created everything beautiful and ideal (who wept over our sinful choices that have ruined everything) who left the splendor of Heaven, came down and chose to be born in a poor forgotten corner of our planet, revealing himself first to lowly shepherds, carpenters, and fishermen.</div>
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Francis Galton might best be described as a Renaissance Man. He had a penchant for observing, counting and measuring and over his life, made significant contributions to a number of disparate fields. Although while in college, Galton had prepared for a career in the medical profession, after leaving Cambridge, he traveled extensively first through Eastern Europe and then up the Nile to the Sudan. He then journeyed through the Middle East and in 1850 he embarked on a groundbreaking expedition through what is now Namibia in southwestern Africa.</div>
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Unknown to me before reading more on Galton, Charles Darwin was a first cousin of his. After the publication of <i>Origin of Species</i>, Galton became increasingly interested variations of human populations and their behaviors. He studied the possibility of inherited ability or behaviors among humans and created the study of differential psychology. His studies dabbled in eugenics and inheritance of behaviors including criminal behavior – Galton also invented a system for classifying fingerprints. He was the first to pose the question of "nature versus nurture," and was one of the first to gather information on twin studies.</div>
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In light of the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, there will be no contest today. Instead, please take a few minutes and pray for the families of those who lost loved ones.<br />
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It breaks my heart to think of their loss and what they must be going through.<br />
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<br />Nate Maashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205088028505450499noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-28025843114648317482012-12-14T10:21:00.001-08:002012-12-14T10:53:55.131-08:00Women's Suffrage - More Recent Than You ThinkBeing a history teacher, my head is filled with all kinds of useless knowledge. A couple days ago, my fellow teachers and I were having a talk after school, when the subject of suffrage came up. I mentioned that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a> was one of the last countries to grant women the vote and said that I thought it was 1976. Samantha said it was 1971 and looked it up. She was right and I was wrong.<br />
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Even though I already had this fuzzy fact in my head (picturing suffragettes as older ladies with large hats and ankle length dresses in our country), I knew Switzerland was late to the game. After reading a little bit last night, I was even more surprised to uncover a few additional facts.</div>
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<i>Two Swiss Anti-Suffrage Posters from the late 1950s</i></div>
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Although Switzerland held several national votes to grant women's suffrage, each was denied until 1971, but Switzerland is a confederation so each <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland">canton</a> could grant suffrage and the first women voted at the local level in 1959. At the time of the 1971 vote, the majority of cantons still denied votes to women. Since that time, all but one had approved votes for women until 1990. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell_Innerrhoden">Appenzell Innerrhoden</a> was the lone holdout, rejecting it in 1973, 1982, and 1990. Following the 1990 vote, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court forced the canton to allow it, thereby making Switzerland the last country in Europe to allow full suffrage at all levels for women (the last to allow it nationally was tiny <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein">Lichtenstein</a> in 1984).</div>
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Most of the worst case scenarios presented by the anti-sufferage movement had typically centered around the notion that if women were to get involved in politics, they would abandon domestic life or somehow reverse the social order and fall under the rule of domineering Amazonians.</div>
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Getting back to Appenzell Innerrhoden, the curious thing I discovered was that many Swiss cantons practice a rather unique forms of direct democracy – particularly so in Appenzell Innerrhoden, where they still hold something called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsgemeinde">Landsgemeinde</a>, an open-air election assembly. Each year on the last Sunday in April, all eligible voters gather in the village square for a cantonal assembly.</div>
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Well, I was sitting at the dinner table with the family when the name Lydia came up. Of course I immediately started singing "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8">Lydia the Tattooed Lady</a>," from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers">Marx Brothers</a> movie <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Circus">At the Circus</a>.</i></div>
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You can check out the article yourself, but I always have a hard time with maps like this. I start thinking of people I know from different countries to see if they fit the map. Of course, this is nonsense as there are more and less emotional people in every country, but in general I still enjoy thinking about these things (and an excuse to look at a map in a new way is always fun).</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-89870161743653295772012-12-01T08:00:00.000-08:002012-12-01T08:00:02.773-08:00Person-of-Mystery<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-83578819408558742102012-11-29T04:30:00.000-08:002012-11-29T04:30:03.778-08:00Dapper Days of YoreLooks like we're back in business and I'm able to post photos once again (for free)! Thanks everyone.<br />
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Today I'm featuring a photo of my great-grandfather, E.S. Goodner. He is always well dressed in every photo I have of him, but particularly so in this one. I can't tell what I enjoy more, the straw hat or the prices in the grocery store!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200175330792057896noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-83988039577617108082012-11-28T05:26:00.001-08:002012-11-28T05:26:12.645-08:00ConundrumHere's an interesting problem, this morning, when I went to upload a blog post, I was told by Blogger, the hosting site, that I had now exceeded my 1GB photo limit for this blog. This was news to me as I was unaware that there were limits. I'll be looking for a solution soon, but if there is a reader out there who has already encountered a similar issue and has figured out a good work around for this problem, let me know. I could just pay the money that Google wants me to upgrade my storage size on Picasa, but I'd rather do it for free as this blog is still somewhat of a hobby.<br />
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<br />Nate Maashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205088028505450499noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-6860751896191953032012-11-24T08:00:00.001-08:002012-11-24T08:01:18.317-08:00Place-of-Mystery<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #323333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I've been busier than I imagined I would over the holiday break. Earlier in the month, we had a small amount of weekend rain, so the younger boys soccer games have been pushed back, so we're attending a number of their playoff games. Jonathan's team pulled off a last minute win last night and Andrew's team tied, so they're both still in the running.</span></span></span><br />
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And here's a bit of interesting trivia for you, whether they realize it or not, about one in ten Americans are descendants of Pilgrims who came to the New World on the Mayflower.</div>
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Nate Maashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205088028505450499noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-72753372939161461022012-11-17T08:00:00.000-08:002012-11-17T08:00:03.866-08:00Person-of-Mystery<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">You've found the home of everyone's favorite weekend pastime, where a stylized photo of a somewhat famous person from history is provided here for you to identify.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most enjoyable and unintentional things about blogging is all the interesting new knowledge I happen across as a result of meeting blog friends (there should be a more appropriate word for this) and exchanging knowledge. Today, I would like to highlight a wonderful and unintentional find I made while perusing Rob from Amersfoort's delightful website, <a href="http://www.robswebstek.com/">Robs Webstek</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Rob, I enjoy maps. I love looking at every little detail and I enjoyed this one too. One detail that caught my eye this time however, was the compass rose. Van Wytfliet had labeled the map in the Latin language including the cardinal points: Oriens, Occidens, Septentrio, and Meridies. Most people are familiar with the English words Oriental and Occidental as somewhat archaic terms for Eastern and Western, but I became curious if these other Latin words had spawned equivalent terms for Northern and Southern. As a matter of fact, the answer is yes, although the terms really never caught on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until I had seen Van Wyfliet's map, I had only been familiar with Orient and Occident and I hadn't put much thought into why there were no comparable terms for Northern and Southern lands. Checking the dictionary, I did see that there is a term for Northern lands, it's Septentrion. What a wonderful word!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might have noticed the Latin sept- prefix. Septem is Latin for the number seven, just like September. I can already hear some of you saying, "But September is the ninth month, not the seventh!" Well, actually in the original Roman calendar September was the seventh month, followed by the rest of the numbered months up to the tenth month, December (e.g., septem, seven; octo, eight; novem, nine; decem, ten). July and August were originally Quintilis and Sextilis (fifth and sixth respectively) until they were changed to honor Julius Caesar (July) and Augustus Caesar (August). The Romans later added Ianuarius and Februarius to account for the previously unaccounted winter time period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, thank you to Rob from Amersfoort! But now that I'm thinking about words, shouldn't that be Rob van Amersfoort or Rob uit Amersfoort? Either way, I always appreciate a good think.</span></div>
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Nate Maashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205088028505450499noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16096012.post-87665658212841575962012-11-09T08:51:00.001-08:002012-11-09T08:51:51.368-08:00What Was ThereIt looks like the feud is cooling down for the moment as PJM appears to be promising the moon to his readers over on the <a href="http://old-photos.blogspot.com/">Old Picture of the Day blog</a>. In response to reader requests for a domestic update (launched by DADD), he's now saying <i><b>maybe</b></i> he'll do something about it next week. People are so eager to believe the best – they're now content with a <i style="font-weight: bold;">maybe</i>. I swear that rascal nemesis of mine should run for political office. With his silver tongue, I'm sure he'd win!<br />
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Although, the site isn't yet extensively well developed, their interface is amazing. The best feature is the ability to fade the photo over the street view and see what it looks like today.<br />
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And for those with an iPhone/iPad, there is even a <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id421576457?mt=8">free What Was There app</a> you can use when when you're on the go. It is a little different than the online version in that it shows you the original picture with GPS navigation and then when you get there, it uses your camera to allow you to fade the old photo into the modern scene with your camera phone. I think I may try and partner with our local historical society and see if I can get them to release some old photos of our town and have my high school students find the modern locations for those images.</div>
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Thanks to my long time readers who have written and expressed their support for me in this latest tussle with PJM. I hope my more recent readers have picked up on the notion that it's all in fun. The feud has a long history and it really started when PJM ran a Mystery Person contest every Saturday morning. Ah, good times. You relive one of my more favorite mornings <a href="http://old-photos.blogspot.com/2009/02/contest.html">HERE</a>, but here were so many.</div>
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And just to end on a note that ties it all together, if I were to run the "What Was There" way back machine on our Super Villain, of course he'd be out in the West Texas countryside wearing the black hat and looking a lot like this:</div>
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