Daily Almanac for Tuesday, December 21, 2021; Day 355 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangulargrid of white- and black-shaded squares. The game’s goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues, which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words […]

NHL News: Larkin, Tarasenko and Ehlers Named Week 10 ‘Three Stars’ of the Week

NEW YORK (Dec. 20, 2021) – Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin, St. Louis Blues right wing Vladimir Tarasenko and Winnipeg Jets left wing Nikolaj Ehlers have been named the NHL’s “Three Stars” for the week ending Dec. 19. FIRST STAR – DYLAN LARKIN, C, DETROIT RED WINGS Larkin led the NHL with five goals and seven points […]

Daily Almanac for Monday, December 20, 2021; Day 354 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. ‘Sale of Louisiana’) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km2; 530,000,000 […]