In the first one, I assume the patient went to a non-Kaiser hospital. The hospital wrote off $17k.

Tanganyika and Zanzibar became Tanzania in 1964. This globe is giving me horrible flashbacks to elementary school when our teacher could always throw us a curve ball by randomly pointing to a country and asking its new name. We HAD to read the newspaper every day to keep up.

I don’t remember what I had for breakfast today but I remember I took photos of a green Bonneville in Winnemucca in 2011.

Winnemucca Bonneville:

We should all go back to blogging. Let me see if I can find an appropriate photo taken on Highway 50 in Nevada.

Jamaica became independent in 1962. Kenya in December 1963. So this globe was made in 1964.

Rhodesia and Nyasaland ends in 1963. Upper Volta became independent in 1960. So 1960-1963. I have to move this to my office. My kids cannot rely on this for homework.

Guyana became independent in 1970. Malagasy Republic was 1958-1975. So 1958-1969.

Great point.

I don’t have room for this but it’s a Soviet toy. Never played with shiny painted metal carousel of cars and buses.

I’ve been shopping for a globe for myself for Xmas and this is it. Soviet Union. American trust islands. Aden protectorate.

TIL the American flag at McDonald’s is at half mast because of Dick Cheney.

The Volvo on the left was made in Italy.

Back at it. My uncle and his then girlfriend with his 1964 Corvette. Bought new, he owned it until his death earlier this year. Dad's Barracuda is the background.

Do the dog and cat get along?

Um, in both the US and China, it was the Chinese who successfully built the long-distance railroads.