Chinese astrology is the divination of the future from the Chinese calendar, particularly its 12-year cycle of animals, referred to as the Chinese Zodiac. The 12 Zodiac animal signs are, in order, the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (or goat), monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. Since the (traditional) Chinese zodiac follows the (lunisolar) Chinese calendar, the switch over date for the zodiac signs is the Chinese New Year, not January 1 as in the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, a person who was born in January or early February may have the sign of the previous year. For example, 1990 was the year of the horse, but anyone born from January 1 to January 26, 1990 was born in the Year of the Snake (the sign of the previous year), because the 1990 Year of the Horse began on January 27, 1990. The start of a new Zodiac is also celebrated on Chinese New Year along with many other customs. Dog: 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006 Dragon: 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000 Horse: 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 Monkey: 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004 Pig : 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007 Ox : 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997 Rabbit : 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999 Rat : 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 Rooster : 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005 Ram : 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003 Snake : 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 Tiger : 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998Sterling Silver Pendant, Approx. 11/16"H on 33" cord with description card.
Subtitled: USAF, Navy, and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in SE Asia 1961-1973. This book is a most thorough and detailed review of all the fixed wing losses suffered by the USAF, USN and USMC over a 12-year period. The information, culled from a huge variety of sources, is a chronological recording of each aircraft loss including information on unit, personnel, location, and cause of loss. Information is also provided on the background or future career of some of the aircrew involved. Interspersed with the main text is general background information which helps to put the detailed entries into perspective and includes material on campaigns, units, aircraft and weapons, and other relevant topics. A selection of photographs is included, illustrating the various entries in the chronological sections, and there are extensive orders of battle, plus an index of personnel, as well as statistics of the war, list of abbreviations, glossary of code names and a bibliography.Paperback, 8-1/2 x 11, 192 pp, 100 color
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Festivus For The Rest Of Us T-Shirt :: Seinfeld Festivus Frank Costanza. Festivus is December 23rd! The holiday includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday only ending if the head of the household is actually pinned. Festivus is introduced in "The Strike", which revolves around Cosmo Kramer returning to work at H&H Bagels. He does so after learning that a 12-year strike in which he participated has ended (because the minimum wage has risen to the level of the wages demanded by the workers twelve years earlier). Kramer becomes interested in resurrecting the holiday when at the bagel shop, Frank Costanza tells him how he created Festivus as an alternative holiday in response to the commercialization of Christmas. Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way. Cosmo Kramer: What happened to the doll? Frank Costanza: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born: a Festivus for the rest of us![6] Frank Costanza's son, George (Jason Alexander), creates donation cards for a fake charity called The Human Fund (with the slogan "Money For People") in lieu of having to give office Christmas presents. When his boss, Mr. Kruger (Daniel von Bargen), questions George about a $20, 000 check he gave George to donate to the Human Fund as a corporate donation, George hastily concocts the excuse that he made up the Human Fund because he feared persecution for his beliefs, for not celebrating Christmas. Attempting to call his bluff, Kruger goes home with George to see Festivus in action. Kramer eventually goes back on strike from his bagel-vendor job when his manager tells him he can not have time off for his new-found religious holiday. Kramer is then seen on the street with a sign reading "Festivus yes! Bagels no!", and chanting to anyone passing the store "Hey! No bagel, no bagel, no bagel."[6] Finally at Frank's house in Queens, Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George gather to celebrate Festivus. George brings Kruger to prove Festivus is real. The Festivus Pole In the episode, though not in the original O'Keefe Family celebration, the tradition of Festivus begins with an aluminium pole. During Festivus, the Festivus Pole is displayed unadorned. The pole was chosen apparently in opposition to the commercialization of highly decorated Christmas trees, because it is "very low-maintenance", and also because the holiday's patron, Frank Costanza, finds tinsel "distracting". The basics of the Festivus pole are explained by Frank in two separate situations. Cosmo Kramer: Is there a tree? Frank Costanza: No, instead, the