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therainingkiwi · 1 year ago

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Train travel in The Lightning Thief/PJO TV season 1

Oh look, I'm overanalyzing fictional train travel because I'm one of Those neurodivergent people. Let's get into it. Warning for VERY minor book spoilers (just mentioning the names of all the cities our trio travels through).

TL; DR our trio's cross country travel route makes no sense at all.

In the first book/season of the Percy Jackson series, our main trio takes a cross-country trip from Long Island, NY, to Los Angeles, CA. In the beginning, it appears as if they've boarded a cross country bus that will drive them the whole way there (a trip that usually takes ~72 hours). However, they get derailed in rural New Jersey (presumably the northwestern part of the state).

After New Jersey, the action immediately skips ahead, and we next see our trio on an LA-bound train that's about to stop in St. Louis (and in the book, has a later stop in Denver).

So, just off the bat: the train route that the trio are taking doesn't exist IRL (assuming they board a train in Trenton, and that train stops in St. Louis, Denver, and Los Angeles). It's also impossible for a single person to travel that route for $200, much less three people. Chiron needs some up to date information about cross country travel prices.

If they were traveling a reasonable IRL amtrak route, they'd probably take the Cardinal from Trenton to Chicago, and then take the Southwest Chief from Chicago to LA. However, if they can get back to Penn Station from Aunty Em's, they could take the Lake Shore Limited from NYC to Chicago, which would be 7-8 hours shorter than getting to Chicago via the Cardinal.

They could also take a bus from north New Jersey to Chicago.

However, the Southwest Chief (most direct amtrak route to LA) stops at neither St. Louis nor Denver. The most notable cities along the route are Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff.

If they wanted to take a route to LA that had them pass thru St. Louis, they could take the Texas Eagle from Chicago to St. Louis to San Antonio, and then take the Sunset Limited from San Antonio to LA. There are 3 trains per week that make this two-leg trip without requiring travelers to transfer at San Antonio, so our trio are probably on one of those. Why they didn't take the (shorter, cheaper, and more frequent) Southwest Chief is a mystery, honestly.

Since Chicago is the USA Amtrak hub, most routes will pass thru that city. The only alternative route is taking the Crescent from Trenton to New Orleans and then taking the Sunset Limited from New Orleans to LA. This would take them nowhere near Denver or St Louis, but probably wouldn't have a significant time/price difference from routing the trip thru Chicago (assuming they travel direct from Chicago to LA rather than taking the Texas Eagle thru San Antonio).

Unfortunately, there are no trains in the USA that travel between St. Louis and Denver (or even between St. Louis and Colorado in general), so that leg of their trip would have been made via bus. Greyhound (the USA's main long-distance bus travel company) has buses directly from St. Louis to Denver that end in California (but in San Francisco rather than LA).

In conclusion, I propose a new Amtrak route called "The Lightning Thief" that travels from New York-Penn Station, down the Northeast corridor thru New Jersey, and then turns west, making major stops in St. Louis, Denver, and Las Vegas, before terminating in LA. It doesn't stop in Amtrak's Chicago hub because all hub-and-spoke transit systems should have rim routes, and because Chicago isn't mentioned in The Lightning Thief.

Also, in conclusion, the USA needs better rail infrastructure and I'm a fucking nerd.

Amtrak map below for reference.

#percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson tv series #pjotv spoilers #long post #amtrak #railroad #the lightning thief #i wanna read an AU where the group takes the Southwest Chief train to LA and has fun adventures in Chicago and Albuquerque and Kansas City

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ask-sad-ghost-piett · 1 year ago

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Imperial Superlative Poll, Posthumous Edition

I think this poll is rather redundant to perform posthumously but my crew insisted on it.

#imperial officer #galactic empire #admiral piett #darth vader #star wars crack #general veers #moff jerjerrod #moff gideon #admiral motti #director krennic #firmus piett #captain needa #penn pershing #admiral ozzel #ghostly polls

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palmviewfm · 4 months ago

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mw?

there's a ton of mw faces that we'd love to see here ! i put it under a read more since it's a large list. but bring us whoever you've got the muse for, ofc !

taylor zakhar perez, nicholas galitzine, noah lalonde, danny griffin, jonathan daviss, drew starkey, darren barnett, elias kacavas, emilio sakraya, evan mock, eli brown, glen powell, zane phillips, john boyega, jordan gonzalez, austin butler, henry zaga, felix mellard, thomas weatherall, miles teller, sam claflin, penn badgely, chace crawford, lewis tan, lucas bravo, kit harrington, joseph morgan, josh segarra, harry shum jr, chris pine, ryan gosling, alex saxon, theo james, andrew garfield, gregg sulkin, ben levin, adam brody, logan lerman, pedro pascal, tom holland, mason gooding, lucien laviscount, ryan gosling, rege jean page, froy guiterrez, tanner buchanan, xolo mariduena, robert scott wilson, carson boatman, ross lynch, algee smith, cody christian, adam dimarco, alex fitzalan, daniel ezra, anthony keyvan, keith powers, keiynan lonsdale, joseph quinn, aramis knight, antonio cipriano, derek luh, leo howard, leo woodall, brandon perea, dacre montgomery, diego tinoco, mena massoud, maxence danet-fauxel, lorenzo zurzolo, michael cimino, paul mescal, callum turner, d'pharoh woon-a-tai, jordah fisher, josh heuston,l alex meraz, kiowa gordon, tom glynn carney, avan jogia, dylan minnette, josh hutcherson, assad zaman, gabriel basso, ross butler, robert buckley, james lafferty, david casteneda, brandon soo hoo, grifflin gluck, grant gustin, dylan wang, asa germann, alejandro spietzer, colin ford, alex landi, alfred enoch, aria shahghasemi, anthony turpel, cha eunwoo, aj saudin, danny ramirez, david iacono, chris briney, sabrina carpenter, ayo edibiri, madison bailey, samantha logan, kim doyeon, nichola coughlan, madison davenport, indiana evans, india eisley, lyrica okano, virginia gardner, liana liberato, kiersey clemons, lindsey morgan, liv hewson, emma d'arcy, victoria pedretti, logan browning, lola tung, louriza tronco, lorenza izzo, lovie simone, luca hollestelle, hunter schafer, zion moreno, taylor russell, laura harrier, lana condor, lauren tsai, anna sawai, jane de leon, kylie bunbury, kathryn bernardo, chienna filomeno, phoebe dynevor, simone ashley, maitreyi ramakrishnan, courtney eaton, nicole maines, jessica alexander, peyton alex smith, ella purnell, sophie neilsse, dev patel, rahul kohli, natalia dyer, danielle campbell, ella balinska, bailey bass, jessica sula, emma mackey, mia goth, melissa barerra, alva bratt, kiana lede, kiana madiera, olivia scott welch, kiernan shipka, meg donnelly, camila mendes, brianne tju, maddie hasson, dianna agron, emilija baranac, danielle rose russell, kaylee kaneshiro, isabella gomez, jenny boyd, lulu antarisksa, josephine langford, lizeth selene, marina ruy barbosa, kaya scodelario, katherine mcnamara, chloe rose robertson, kathryn newton, kristine froseth, pat chayanit, davika hoorne, mint ranchrawee, rabia soyturk, hande ercel, aslihan malbora, melisa pamuk, katie stevens, meghann fahy, merrit patterson, adelaide kane, alexxis lemire, adria arjona, amanda arcuri, sadie soverall, sara waisglass, chelsea clark, blu hunt, antonia gentry, brianne howey, bianca santos, bianca lawson, phoebe tonkin, shelley hennig, bruna marquezine, brittany o'grady, crystal reed, charithra chandran, jessie mei li, halston sage, carlson young, willa fitzgerald, halle bailey, chloe bridges, chloe bailey, margot robbie, anne hathaway, lisa yamada, raven bowens, olivia rose keegan, camryn grimes, gideon aldon, tiera skovbye, amy adams, jane levy, angela bassett, anya taylor joy, anya chalotra, ashleigh murray, lucy hale, troian bellisario, sophia bush, bethany joy lenz, shantel vansanten, hilarie burton, shay mitchell, sasha pieterse, janel parrish, malia pyles, bailee madison, chandler kinney, jordan alexander, zaria simone, auli'i cravalho, bebe wood, angourie rice, renee rapp, ashley moore, ashley park, aisha dee, alisha boe, elizabeth lail, alia bhatt, reina hardesty, victoria justice, liz gillies, bahar sahin, amber midthunder, gemma chan, madchen amick, marisol nichols, madison mclaughlin, malese jow, maris racal, maya hawke, jessica chastain, ana de armas, angela sarafyan, and anna lambe !

#appless rp #oc rp #new rp #town rp #slice of life rp #small town rp #beach rp #fandom rp #apartment rp #au rp #relaxed rp #tumblr rp #mumu rp #mature rp #multifandom rp #fandomless rp #literate rp #mw.#palmviewanswered.

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omegaremix · 15 days ago

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Favorite Sampling / Crate-Digging / Classic Finds For The 2010’s.

Walt Barr “Free Spirit”

Azymuth “Jazz Carnival”

Reg Tilsley “Hold The Road”

Willie Bobo “Kojak Theme”

Bobby Lyle “Inner Space”

Marcio Montarroyos “Pedra Bonilla”

Rubba “Way Star”

Eddie Henderson “Involuntary Bliss”

Jaye P. Morgan “It’s Been So Long“

Eric Gale “Morning Glory”

Tribe “Koke Pt. I & II”

Urbie Green The Fox

Hysear Don Walker “Poo Jo”

Weldon Irvine “Morning Sunrise”

Unit Nine “Night Light”

Larry Bright “Solar Visions”

Sun Ra Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1

Gary Davis & His Professor “Stay With Me”

L.A. Boppers “Saturday”

Pop Eye “Lazy Haze”

Phil Upchurch “Black Gold”

Ronnie Laws “Always There”

Sauver Mallia “Future Vision”

Sweet Mixture “House Of Fun And Love”

Tantor “Niederwohren”

Catalyst “New-Found Truths”

Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw “Mermaid”

Clive Hicks “Deserted Factory”

Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw “The Difference”

Jack Wilkins “Red Clay”

James Clarke “In Suspension”

Negril self-titled

Blackbyrds, The “Mysterious Vibes”

Bill Loose “Almost Sixteen”

Robert Ashley “Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon”

Steve Khan “The Blue Man”

Puccio Roelens “A Silness Song”

Robert Viger “Limpidite”

Ramsey Lewis “Skippin’”

Alan Hawkshaw “Cruising”

Keith Mansfield “Love De Luxe”

General Lee & The Space Army Band “We Did It Baby Pt. 1 & 2”

Tony Hymas “Final Inspecton”

Antonio Andolfo Feito Em Casa

James Clarke “Waiting Game”

Alan Hawkshaw “Blue Note”

Bob James “Angela”

Tom Scott “Appolonia (Foxtrata)”

Alan Parker & Mike Moran “Your Smile”

Ethel Beatty “Your Love”

Keith Droste “When You Come Around”

Ojeda Penn “Happiness Is Having You Here”

Walt Barr “Creepin’”

Brass Construction “Don’t Try To Change Me”

Sylvano Santorio “Waves”

William Onyeabor “Better Change Your Mind”

Puccio Roelens “Northern Lights”

Ramsey Lewis “Tambura”

Blackbyrds, The “Mysterious Vibes”

Champaign “I’m On Fire”

Starfire “Make The Most of It”

Dick Walter “The Fat Man”

Don Patterson “The Good Life”

Maynard Ferguson “Mister Mellow”

Death “David’s Dream”

Vic Juris “Leah”

Ramsey Lewis “Sun Goddess”

Stuff “Sun Song”

Nancy Wilson ”I’m In Love”

Undisputed Truth, The “Smiling Faces Sometimes”

Heatwave “Leaving For A Dream”

Eddie Henderson “Beyond Forever”

Keith Mansfield “Routine Procedure”

Players’ Association, The “Moon In Pisces”

Jaye P. Morgan “Can’t Hide Love”

Bill Loose “Slight Misgivings”

Bernice Chardiet / Martha Hayes “All By Myself“

Steve Khan “Darling Darling Baby (Sweet Tender Love)”

Gordon’s War “Got To Fan The Flame”

McNeal & Miles “Ja Ja”

Annette Peacock & Paul Bley “A Loss Of Consciousness”

Alan Hawkshaw “Mystique Voyage”

Big Barney “The Whole Damn Thing”

General Lee & The Space Army Band “Magic”

Gene Harris “Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong”

Tomorrow’s People “Open Soul”

Blackbyrds, The “Love Is Love”

Chick Carlton & Mesmeriah “One More Time With Feeling”

Cortex “Huit Octobre”

Flora Purim “Angels”

Francis Monkman “Getting Ready”

Frank Ricotti “Vibes”

Herbie Hancock “Butterfly”

James Mason “I Want Your Love”

Franco Micalizzi “Jessica’s Theme”

Manzel “Midnight Theme”

Sass “I Only Wanted To Love You”

Stars & Bars “Stars And Bars”

Sunburst “Mysterious Vibes”

Mass Production “Slow Bump”

Peter Brown “For Your Love”

Bobby Lyle “Night Breeze”

Brian Bennett “Morning”

Vic Juris “Horizon Drive”

Hailu Mergia & The Walias (ft. Mulatu Astatke) “Yemiasleks Fikir”

Bereket Mengistaab “Lebay”

LaMont Johnson Aces

Alan Hawkshaw “Warm Hearts”

Heatwave “Star Of The Story”

Pasteur Lappe “Mbale (Face To Face With The Truth)”

Joe Beck & David Sanborn “Texas Ann”

Jon Lucien “Sunny Day”

Players’ Association, The “Turn The Music Up!”

Richie Cole “New York Afternoon”

Rufus & Chaka Khan “Your Smile”

Shuggie Otis “Pling!”

Alice Coltraine “Galaxy In Turiya”

Stuff “And Here You Are”

Pharoah Sanders “Greeting to Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner)”

Edgar Vercy “La Mer”

Fa-5 self-titled

Iodi “Sonrie”

Joe Moks Boys And Girls

Blackbyrds, The “Lady”

Teddy Lasry “Riverhead”

Brothers Johnson “Tomorrow”

Håkon Graf & Sveinung Hovensjø & Jon Eberson & Jon Christensen “Alive Again”

Favorite Sampling / Crate-Digging / Classic Finds For The Oughts.

Donny Hathaway “Singing This Song To You”

Esther Phillips “That’s All Right With Me”

Gil Scott-Heron “We Almost Lost Detroit”

Isaac Hayes “Hung Up On My Baby”

Marvin Gaye “I Want You” (inst.)

David Axelrod “Warning Pts. 1 & 2”

Pharoah Sanders “Creator Has A Master Plan, The”

Lonnie Liston Smith “Expansions”

Kool & The Gang “Summer Madness”

Roy Ayers Virgin Ubiquity I & II

Rotary Connection “Memory Band”

Cal Tjader “Morning Mist”

Dave Grusin “Either Way”

RAMP “Daylight”

Gil Scott-Heron “A Very Precious Time”

Sun Ra “Yucatan” (Saturn ver.)

Edwin Birdsong “Cola Bottle Baby”

Kool & The Gang “Summer Madness” (live)

Neil Richardson “The Riviera Affair”

Roy Ayers Ubiquity “Show Us A Feeling”

Persuaders, The “We’re Just Trying To Make It”

Sun Ra “Enlightenment”

Les McCann River High River Low

Minnie Riperton“Lovin’ You”

Floaters, The “Float On”

Roy Ayers Ubiquity “Miles (Love’s Silent Dawn)”

Les McCann Layers

John Tropea A Short Trip To Space

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes Astral Traveling

Chick Corea“Crystal Silence”

Richard “Groove” Holmes “Onsaya Joy”

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian JacksonWinter In America

Delegation“Oh, Honey”

Heatwave “Always And Forever”

Olympic Runners “Don’t Let Up”

Kool & The Gang “Winter Sadness”

Ronnie Laws “Tidal Wave”

Parliament Funkadelic “One Of Those Funky Things”

Roy Ayers A Tear To A Smile

Galt McDermott Ripped Open By Metal Explosion

Idris Muhammad “Crab Apple”

Alan Parker & John CameronAfro Rock

Beginning Of The EndFunky Nassau

Otto Cesana “Hi”

Syd Dale “Cuban Presto”

Chambers Brothers, The “New Generation”

Chick Corea Friends

Edwin Birdsong “Rapper Dapper Snapper”

Jerry Butler “Got To See If I Can’t Get Momma (To Come Back Home)”

Karla Bonoff Restless Nights

Phil Upchurch self-titled

Roy Ayers (Ubiquity) “This Side Of Sunshine”

Billy Cobham “Heather”

Bill Conti “Reflections”

Andre Previn “Executive Party Dance”

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes Vision Of A New World

London West End Theatre Orchestra“Apollo 15 (Race Leader)”

#samping #crat-digging #vinyl #records #treasure #jazz #fusion #soul #R&B #groove #funk #omega #music #playlists #mixtapes

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nice-bright-colors · 7 months ago

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Well, alrighty then…

I’m still working on getting paid for April, it’s now June.

My one (and only) client’s stock soared by 20% on Friday because of a scathing open letter to the Board of Directors. All about how the CEO has bumble-fucked the company in the last 3 years. Basically blowing about $4B of investor capital in shitty decisions about online gaming and sports betting.

[you can Google it and read all about it if you want…the company is Penn Entertainment]

So my guess is come Tuesday at the AGM meeting, there’s going to be a massive shake up. Ironically Tuesday/ Wednesday is when I should be getting the notice to proceed on the San Antonio project.

Either the CEO is going to get fired, or many top level executives are getting fired, or at some point the company is going to be on the chopping block for sale. All because they took a shit on Barstool Sports. Then once they got done cleaning their pants, they shit them again with ESPN Bet.

Maybe, just maybe…hopefully, fingers crossed…they realize they need to focus on their brick and mortar locations. Plus perhaps, realize that many of their properties are failing due to poor maintenance, or life span of the building, and its components.

So come mid-June when yours truly turns the ripe old age of 51, maybe I can become so stupid crazy busy with too much work. Or, I’ll be floundering around and scrambling to figure out my next steps, because my livelihood has dried up.

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In other news:

I found this wonderful gem of USDA organic gin from wheat made in Idaho last night. No comment about how most of it is gone.

Plus I dragged a brand new razor blade across my face, chin, jaw, and neck today. It’s been 7 or 8 weeks since I last did. So, for the time being I’m clean shaven. Give it about 3-1/2 to 4 hours and I won’t be anymore.

#American Gin #plus ginger beer

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pettirosso1959 · 2 months ago

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Napoli si sta sgretolando sotto il dominio comunista.

"Passo dopo passo" , disse Bassolino nel 1990, ai tempi della sua prima elezione a sindaco, l'inizio della fine della mia città.

E passo dopo passo, siamo arrivati a tutto questo.

Il degrado voluto, cercato, anelato dai comunisti per 35 anni d'inciviltà ha portato all'ingovernabilità assoluta, materiale e culturale, in una città dove la sua peggior feccia, che prima viveva rintanata in quartieri-ghetto, oggi gira libera, armata e motorizzata, per l'intero territorio cittadino, fino ad arrivare alla provincia.

La stessa Chiaja, la mia Chiaja, un tempo quartiere-salotto, oggi si è piegata alla volgarità e al malcostume delinquenziale, tanto è vero che l'assassino a sangue freddo del diciannovenne a San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, Santo Romano, dopo aver ucciso, se ne è andato sul lungomare a farsi uno Spritz, come se avesse investito un ratto, invece di aver freddato un giovane.

Vigliaccamente, con due colpi di pistola in pieno petto.

Una Chiaja che non sa più fare selezione, che non riesce a chiudersi alla teppaglia, travolta , a sua volta, dal malvezzo, dalla delinquenza, dal caos dilagante, dalla cafoneria dei suoi esercenti, che hanno ormai soppiantato quelli storici.

Non esistono più zone franche, in città.

Ovunque , rischi di imbatterti in questi pezzi di merda, il più delle volte MINORENNI, con annessa pistola o coltello , che colgono qualsiasi occasione, provocazioni comprese, per fare del male al prossimo.

E' una non-cultura giovanile nuova , questa, che parte dalla contro-cultura comunista.

Dall'esaltazione della cafoneria, del male , dell'ignoranza, del nulla concettuale, del cattivo esempio, dal Cinema (Gomorra & C.) alla musica (D'Alessio, Geolier) , il tutto con il benestare comunale e unito sotto un falso senso di "uguaglianza" sociale che non esiste e non è mai esistita, a Napoli come da nessuna parte.

Un'uguaglianza che ha portato al rimescolio, in ogni angolo della città, tra delinquenti provenienti da famiglie di delinquenti, che calano come jene da quartieri delinquenziali, che di delinquenza campano, e le persone perbene, che ci stanno rimettendo le penne come mosche.

Cosa fare ?

Fossi io a capo dell'ordine pubblico, risolverei in 48 ore.

Militarizzazione della città.

Ordine di consegnare in questura le armi, tutte le armi, entro una certa data, attraverso un ultimatum.

Perquisizione a tappeto, fisica, di tutti i partecipanti agli assembramenti urbani attraverso l'utilizzo di forze speciali di carabinieri e polizia e dell'esercito.

Cammini con la pistola ? cazzi tuoi se ti becco e guarda che ti becco, altrimenti devi solo rinchiuderti in casa, uscire non puoi.

Inasprimento delle pene, fino ad arrivare all'ergastolo, per CHIUNQUE abbia precedenti penali e venga trovato in possesso di un'arma da fuoco.

Ordine di smantellare tutti i campi ROM cittadini, dai quali proviene il 90 % delle armi di contrabbando che questi bastardi impugnano.

Ordine di responsabilizzare, attraverso la confisca di OGNI BENE, la famiglia di chi uccide.

E' impossibile che dei genitori non sappiano che il figlio di 17 anni è stato in carcere per spaccio.

E' impossibile non sapere che questi gira armato.

E' impossibile non sapere che ha preso la macchina, senza avere la patente, per andarsene in giro a farsi gli Spritz dopo aver ucciso.

E quindi i familiari DEVONO PAGARE , come i loro figli assassini.

Perché SONO dei delinquenti conclamati anche loro.

E dal loro seme può nascere solo il male.

Date Napoli a me , e io la ripulirò quartiere per quartiere, casa per casa.

Altro che Meloni, arance e mandarini.

Antonio Sabatino.

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brookstonalmanac · 11 days ago

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Holidays 12.31

Holidays

Banished Words List Day

Bright Idea Day

Check the Smoke Alarms Day

Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)

Customs Officers’ Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)

Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)

Granite Day (French Republic)

International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)

Leap Second Time Adjustment Day

Lightbulb Day

Make Up Your Mind Day

Namahage (Japan)

National Andrea Day

National Heroes Day (East Timor)

Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)

The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)

One Voice Day

Pal-O-Ween (from “Kevin Can F**k Himself”) [Every 31st]

Procrastinator's Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Silvesterklause (Switzerland)

Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)

Universal Hour of Peace (UN) [11:30 pm]

World Healing Day

World Peace Meditation Day

You’re All Done Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Champagne Day

National Vinegar Day

Welch’s Grape Day

Independence & Related Days

Ikerlàndia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Penn Federal Republic (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Restoration of the Republic Day (Geneva, Switzerland)

Slinky Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

January 0

New Year's Eve (a.k.a. ...

Afternoon Before New Year’s Day (Estonia)

Amateur Drinking Night

Amband

Auld Year's Night (Scotland)

Baal Fire Festival (England)

Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)

Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)

Brew Year's Eve

Calennig (Wales)

Ditch the Resolutions Day

Feast of Father Time

Festival of the Dead (Positivist)

Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)

Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)

First Footing

First Night

Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)

Freedom’s Eve

Gamlarskvold (Iceland)

Harvest Day (Benin)

Hogmanay (Scotland)

Joya no Kane (Japan)

Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)

Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)

Losar (Ladakh, India) >li>Loosing (a.k.a. Nansoong; Sikkim, India)

Malam Tahun

Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)

Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)

Noche Vieja (Mexico)

Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)

No Resolution Day

Novy God Eve (Russia)

Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)

Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)

Old Year’s Night (England)

Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)

Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)

Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)

Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)

Silvester

Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)

Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)

Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)

The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)

Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)

Watch Night (Christian)

World Peace Meditation Day

Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)

5th & Last Tuesday in December

No Interruptions Day [Last Workday of the Year]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Teriyaki Tuesday [Last Tuesday of Each Month]

Transformation Tuesday [Last Tuesday of Each Month]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 31 (Last Week of the Year)

None Known

Festivals Beginning December 31, 2024

AdAmAn Club Pikes Peak Fireworks (Pikes Peak, Colorado)

Burlington New Year's Eve Celebration (Burlington, Vermont)

CelebrateSA: NYE Countdown (San Antonio, Texas)

CherryT Ball Drop (Traverse City, Michigan)

Davao City Torotot Festival (Davao City, Philippines) [thru 1.1]

The Drop in Motor City (Detroit, Michigan)

Dropping of the Conch Shell (Key West, Florida)

Dropping of the Edelweiss & New Year's Eve Event (Helen, Georgia)

Eastport Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop (Eastport, Maine)

First Night Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)

First Night Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)

First Night Ocean City (Ocean City, New Jersey)

First Night Portsmouth (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)

First Night Talbot Crab Drop (Easton, Maryland)

Flora-Bama New Year's Eve Bash (Orange Beach, Alabama)

Freedom Time (Perth, Western Australia)

Fresh Start (San Francisco, California) [thru 1.1]

The Great Pinecone Drop (Flagstaff, Arizona)

Idaho Potato Drop (Boise, Idaho)

Krumpe's Donut Drop (Hagerstown, Maryland)

Las Cruces Chile Drop (Las Cruces, New Mexico)

Last Night on the Town (Virginia Beach, Virginia)

Little Apple New Year's Eve (Manhattan, Kansas)

Midnight New Year’s Eve Countdown (Waikiki, Hawaii)

Minneapolis New Year's Eve (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Missoula On Main and Beyond (Missoula, Montana)

Mobile New Year's MoonPie Drop (Mobile, Alabama)

New Year's Eve Anchor Drop (Pascagoula, Mississippi)

New Year's Eve Ball Drop & Fireworks Show (Gatlinburg, Tennessee)

New Year's Eve Beach Ball Drop (Panama City Beach, Florida)

New Years' Eve Celebration (Simi Valley, California)

New Year’s Eve Celebration and Fireworks (Anchorage, Alaska)

New Year's Celebration at Half-Mile Farm (Highlands, North Carolina)

New Year’s Eve Duck Drop & Fireworks (Havre de Grace, Maryland)

New Year’s Eve Fireworks Spectacular (Omaha, Nebraska)

New Year's Eve Hershey Kiss Drop (Hershey, Pennsylvania)

New Year's Eve in Denver (Denver, Colorado)

New Year's Eve in Jackson Square (New Orleans, Louisiana)

New Year's Eve in New Brunswick (New Brunswick, New Jersey)

New Year's Eve Grape Drop (Temecula, California)

New Year's Eve Midnight Muskrat Dive (Princess Anne, Maryland)

New Year's Eve Orange Drop (Orlando, Florida)

New Year's Eve Pickle Drop (Mt. Olive, North Carolina)

New Year's Eve Shamrock Drop (Dublin, Georgia)

New Year’s Eve Shrimp Drop (Fernandina Beach, Florida)

New Year's Fest (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

NYE Live! St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)

Price Tower Olive Drop (Bartlesville, Oklahoma)

Rockport New Year’s Eve (Rockport, Massachusetts)

Sarasota New Year's Eve Pineapple Drop (Sarasota, Florida)

Sartori Big Cheese Drop (Plymouth, Wisconsin)

Savannah's Waterfront New Year's Eve (Savannah, Georgia)

Shad Drop (Grifton, North Carolina)

Tallapossa Possum Drop (Tallapoosa, Georgia)

Times Square New Year's Eve (New York, New York)

Walleye Madness at Midnight (Port Clinton, Ohio)

Westport New Year's Eve Fireworks Show (Westport, Washington)

Feast Days

Apodosis of Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Archangel Gabriel (Coptic Church)

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Artology)

Columba (Christian; Saint)

Connie Willis (Writerism)

Fairy Eve’s Year’s News (Shamanism)

Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)

Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)

Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)

First Foot Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Giovanni Boldini (Artology)

Henri Matisse (Artology)

Het Pint (Celtic Book of Days)

Hogmanay (Pagan; Scotland)

Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)

Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)

Julie Doucet (Artology)

Junot Díaz (Writerism)

Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)

Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Max Pechstein (Artology)

Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)

ND Stevenson (Artology)

Nicholas Sparks (Writerism)

Seventh Day of Christmas

Siné (Artology)

Steve Rude(Artology)

Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)

Tess Jaray (Artology)

Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Hanukkah, Day #7 (a.k.a. Chanukah; Judaism) [thru Jan. 2nd] (Light 7 Candles at Dusk) [30 Kislev-1 Tevet]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (Worldwide)

Premieres

The Bear That Wasn’t (MGM Cartoon; 1967)

The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne du Maurier (Short Stories; 1952)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Film; 1969)

Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)

Destination Tokyo (Film; 1943)

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)

Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)

The Dot and the Line (MGM Cartoon; 1965)

Duel in the Sun (Film; 1946)

The Dunderheads or Feeling Zero (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 243; 1963)

Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)

The Fraudulent Volcano (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #16; 1964)

The Knight and Knave of Swords, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1988) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #7]

Love To Love You Baby, by Donna Summer (Song; 1975)

The Marry-G-Round (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1943)

The Mice Will Play (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

A Most Violent Year (Film; 2014)

New Years’ Rockin’ Eve (New Year’s Eve TV Special; 1972)

One Froggy Evening (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

The Paradine Case (Film; 1947)

Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)

Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)

Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1961)

Symphony in Spinach (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1948)

Three to Go or Crash on Delivery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 244; 1963)

Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Melanie, Silvester (Austria)

Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)

Silvestr (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)

Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)

Colombe, Sylvestre (France)

Melanie, Silvester (Germany)

Melany (Greece)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)

Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)

Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)

Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)

Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)

Melania (Romania)

Silvester (Slovakia)

Melania, Silvestre (Spain)

Sylvester (Sweden)

Melania (Ukraine)

Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 366 of 2024; 0 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 1 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 1 (Ji-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 30 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 29 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 6 Fest; Leapday [6 of 6]

Julian: 18 December 2024

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: Festival of Holy Women (Complementary Day)

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 11 of 90)

Week: Last Week of December

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

冰月 [Bīngyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 12 of 12] (Ice Month) [Ox Month]

Festival of Holy Women [Complimentary Extra Day, Leap Years Only; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]

#Holidays

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