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Billy Ray lines up his young sons and stands before them. With a stern look on his face, he asks, "All right, which one of y'all pushed the house over the cliff?"

Nobody answers. The boys just look around at each other, shuffling their feet and avoiding their father's gaze. He then asks again, a bit louder this time. "I said, who pushed the ow out over the cliff?"

Still not a peep from the boys. Billy Ray sigh and decides to try a different approach. "Let me tell y'all a story." He says, "It's about George Washington and his daddy. Now, George chopped down a cherry tree and when his daddy asked him about it, George, he told the truth because George told the truth, well, his daddy didn't punish him." Then he looks at his boys meaningfully and says, "So, I'm going to ask again. Who pushed the outhouse over the cliff?"

Finally, the youngest son, barely able to meet his father's eyes, raises his hand and says, "I pushed the outhouse over the cliff."

Billy Ray, his face red with anger, says, "Okay, then you can clean the stalls while the rest of us go fishing."

Sniffling and wiping his eyes, the boy asks, "But Pa, when George Washington told the truth, he didn't get punished. Why did I get punished when I told the truth?"

Ray shakes his head, takes a deep breath, and replies, "Because when George Washington chopped down the cherry tree, his daddy wasn't in it."

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303 - First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued by Emperor Diocletian at Nicomedia, ordering all churches to be closed and scriptures burnt.

1632 - Galileo Galilei's book "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is published comparing the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems and whether the Earth orbits the sun.

1774 - British House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright.

1797 - The last invasion of Britain is launched by the French near Fishguard, Wales, during the French Revolutionary Wars.

1825 - Russia and Britain establish the Alaska-Canada boundary.

1856 - Republican Party holds its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.

1888 - “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends.

1967 - 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since World War II.

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1732: Hail to the chief… and happy birthday as well. The first POTUS, George Washington, was born on this day.

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National Margarita Day - Need I say more?? Yes, of course I say more… more Margarita of course!!

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WNTS Digest - 11th Anniversary

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.

And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!

- Digester

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