Archive for December 22nd, 2023

FROM A FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIE ~

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A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd‘s semi-fictional anecdotes in his
1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash,

The film was released on November 18, 1983, and received positive reviews from critics.

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FIRST GORILLA BORN IN CAPTIVITY IN 1956

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On December 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo entered the
world at the Columbus Zoo in
Ohio, becoming the first-ever
gorilla born in captivity.

Weighing in at approximately 4 pounds, Colo, a western lowland
gorilla whose name was a combination of Columbus and Ohio,
was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two gorillas captured in
French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought to the Columbus
Zoo in 1951.

Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught in the
wild, often by brutal means. In order to capture a gorilla when
it was young and therefore still small enough to handle,
hunters frequently had to kill the gorilla’s parents and other
family members.
  

       

        
        

       

Today in History: DECEMBER 22 1956: First Gorilla Born in Captivity A baby gorilla named Colo is ...

Colo was fond of baseball caps.
Colo was fond of baseball caps.

Colo Turns 60! Oldest Gorilla in The World Celebrates Birthday at The Columbus Zoo
Colo on her 60th birthday, surpassed the median life expectancy for female gorillas in human care (37.5 years) by more than two
decades.

Colo became a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-
grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three.

She died in her sleep January 17, 2017, less than a month
after her birthday.

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DISCUSSION OF WAR AND PEACE ON THIS DAY

Dinge en Goete (Things and Stuff): This Day in WWII History: Dec 22, 1941: Churchill and ...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) dining with President Roosevelt.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington,
D.C.
for a series of meetings with President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
on a unified Anglo-American war strategy and a
future peace.

Now that the United States was directly involved in both the
Pacific and European wars, it was incumbent upon both Great
Britain and America to create and project a unified front.

Toward that end, Churchill and Roosevelt created a combined
general staff to coordinate military strategy against both
Germany and Japan and to draft a future joint invasion of the
Continent.


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