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Happy New Year from Munich’s Marienplatz

Warning: If you have a dog who has issues with fireworks, thunder, or gun shots, do not play with the sound on.

The structure to my right is the Neues Rathaus (New City Hall).   Throughout the structure, sculptures depict the various kings and dukes that have led Bavaria through its long history. It was bombed during the Second World War, so the structure has been pockmarked by shrapnel. That tree with with the Christmas lights is a live fir or spruce tree.

It was very cold and very tightly crowded. Grmans and Italians were singing and dancing behind me. Champagne and beer were being consumed all around.

The fireworks were fairly close in to the crowd, and it got very smoky after a while.

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From WOWK 13.

No word yet on the proposed Mothman ban.

Or the decision to revise that historical marker to show that the Battle of Point Pleasant was the last battle in Lord Dunmore’s War, not the first battle of the American Revolution.

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Lemming Suicide Myth

Yep. It’s just not true. It was staged for TV.  Blame Walt Disney.

I guess we’re a bunch of lemmings for believing this hoax and then allowing it to enter our public discourse.

It is now an idiom– an idiom based upon a fallacy.

Source.

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Bigfoot sighting in Idaho

Source.

Skepticism skills test.

What do you think?

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Who is the famous person?

Bonus points if you know the dog’s name!

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