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Happy Pi Day!

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March 14, 2017

100 puzzle pieces, one hundred bird extinctions since 1600 What’s the circumference of this circle, you Pie guys…
 File Photo KDG

Pi Day the mathematical equation for circles Pi r squared is a fascination of many math observers. A day of observance was supported by the Us congress in 2009 making March 14th an annual event.

Pi Day has been observed in many ways, including eating pie, throwing pies and discussing the significance of the number π, due to a pun based on the words “pi” and “pie” being homophones in English. source Wikipedia

On this Day: March 14th  1592

Ultimate  Pi Day gives the  biggest Julian calendar  correlation of Pi since adoption.

 

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Powwow

Filed under: First Nations People by Kevin Griffiths — Leave a comment
May 29, 2013

This morning there is about three hundred people in the front field of Merritt Secondary School. Starting with a Grand procession a colorful procession of First Nations people are advancing about the field in the direction of a white teepee tent on the eastern side of the field. Flags , feathers and scarlet coated Mounties are followed up by children of first nations decent.

A young women getting into a jingle dancers dress to take part said it is a first annual and is linked to the school district.

The high school also has a pit house reconstruction at the rear of the school.

The Powwow goes to 1 PM today.

Today in history: May 29th 1954

The first of  the annual bilderburg conferences.

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