Can We Agree It's the End of a Year?
Friday, December 31, 1999
- Title: "Can We Agree It's the End of a Year?" No matter whether you are on the 2000 begins the new millennium or 2001 begins the epoch, we can at a minimum agree a year ends tonight.
- "Two newspapers …" the editorial in the Knoxville paper can be read here:
For the editorial in the Evansville paper, go here:
- "Speaking of long division …" For a quick discussion of leap year stuff go to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich page.
- "… for reasons which now escape me, a quart jar of maraschino cherries." For that long-sought look at what makes a cherry a maraschino, click here:
- "When the world comes to an end …" A Manhattan is an drink (class alcoholic, genus highball) which has the following recipe:
Manhattan
1 oz. Canadian whisky
¼ oz. sweet vermouth
1 dash bitters (optional)
Stir with ice in tumbler.
Strain into a pre-chilled old-fashioned glass.
Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
- "The tumor which was excised …" For the AP story, click here:
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