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Happy New Year! Today, communities celebrating Chinese New Year are welcoming the Year of the Dragon. Next Media Animation explains how the Chinese New Year celebration came to be celebrated with firecrackers. Link
The family of a man named Gerald marked his passing into the undiscovered country by setting off 320,000 firecrackers. I can’t think of a better way to go. What extravagant send-off would you like to have?
Link via Geekologie
Holy moley. I remember jumping rope as a kid, and always thought I was pretty good; heck, I could get through most of the Alphabet (eg: A my name is Alli, etc.). Boy, was I wrong. These young ladies make Double Dutch look like sleep walking.
The Kings Firecrackers are a group of elementary and Jr High school girls from Kings Local School District in Ohio who, besides doing their school work and keeping their grades up, practice for 5 days a week, 2 hrs a day jumping rope. And it pays off; they’ve been on Late Night With David Letterman, in the Macy’s Day parade, at one of Bush’s inaugurations as well as in American Girl magazine.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to take a nap. Just watching them has me exhausted. If you’re not too wiped out, you can take a peek at their blog: Link
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