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The Canadian minister of the interior was Mr. Somebody White: they created a route to the Yukon gold fields, and named the White Pass part after him.The Canadian Minister in 1898 was Clifford Sifton ( link), but Thomas White was Minister of the Interior from 1887 to 1888 ( link). I take it you were up in Nunavut (or environs) for your vacance, n'est-ce pas?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Egad--obviously I misremembered what the flyer said. Yep--Alaska; and into Canada on the train ride.
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My turn to maybe be pining cause everybody else now seems to be on vacation. Alaska must be wonderful too Jackie, but travelling gets a bit tedious when you have to take your shoes off all the time. (Ironic, terrorism made us take our shoes off, not in churches and temples but on airports) The cutest gadget of rural and suburban America I thought is this: link The little free standing house for letters, outbox when you put the red signal up. Cute. But I also admired Pluto and our moon's surface through a telescope, the Science Academy and SFMOMA in San Francisco, a black widow spider in the garage, dolphins and seals seen from the beach, white pelicans over the house and the large hawks. A frantic howling coyote outside the fence on my family's back land in the dead of night.The mountains round Lake Tahoe, the largest variety of pine and fir trees I ever saw and many more amazing things of beauty. etc. etc. Now back to work and I hope you're all having a nice vacation too. :~)
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I am sorry I was not at home when you stopped by and took a
picture of my mail box. Nope, oops, sorry, mine is black. My bad.
By the way, Pluto only has three moons: Charon, Nix and Hydra.
But that is ok, we call it fatigue from too much intake.
Glad you had a wonderful time.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I wasn't giving any numbers of Pluto's moon here. But I guess I saw four. Maybe I squinted in that telescope. Or because of astigmatism.
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Aiii! Now I know why the four moons... I did not see Pluto at all. It was Jupiter with four moons in a straight line. So my bad to begin with. I call it fatigue from too many hours of delay on the home flight. It was big bold Jupiter!
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I wondered.. Pluto ain't even a planet anymore. in fact, in some circles, it's spelled pluto.
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Pluto, and beyond there is Sedna, Quoaor (spelling?): dwarf
planets, and Ceres between Mars and Jupiter. I was just teasing.
It had to be fatigue. Pluto, however has three moons, with two
new small ones recently being discovered.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Moonlets? Moonlets? That sounds like a 1950-s lady-singers trio.
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