And here is the Wannaskan Almanac with Word-Wednesday for November 20, 2024, the forty-seventh Wednesday of the year, the ninth Wednesday of fall, the third Wednesday of November, and the three-hundred-twenty-fourth day of the year, with forty-one days remaining. Wannaska Phenology Update for November 20, 2024 Wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo is a Minnesota DNR success story, with rising populations over the last 25 years, and now a common sight along Thompson and other forest roads of Beltrami Island State Forest. The males, gobblers, are black or gray with tiny head, red neck, and wattle [/WÄ-tᵊl/ n., a fleshy pendulous process usually about the head or neck (as of a bird)], and the females, hens, are brownish-gray. Turkeys eat almost anything they can catch, including ferns, grasses, grain, buds, berries, insects, acorns, and even frogs and snakes. Wild turkeys form flocks of six to forty birds that roost in trees each evening. In 1782, the turkey lost by a single vote to the bal
578 Butz' Chan [Smoke Snake] aged 15 becomes the 11th ruler of the Maya city of Copán. He will go on to rule for 49 years. Whenever challenged he would attack people, much like his brother Jackie, and kick their butz! 1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV. I am pretty sure that the victory was secured using Axe cologne. The body spray for medieval knights! 1493 Christopher Columbus first reaches Puerto Rico, inhabited by the TaÃno on his 2nd voyage to the Caribbean. Wannaskan Almanac archivists uncovered the following poem written about this event: In fourteen hundred and ninety three Columbus crossed an ocean of pee This poem never did catch on, for obvious reasons. 1873 William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed", of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment. Of course he would have been considered innocent if he had just run for Congress first. Timing is all that separates a criminal from a cong