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January 28,2020
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Ridgewood NJ, Groundhog Day or Ground-Hog Day,is a popular tradition celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2.It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog (Deitsch: Grundsau, Grunddax, Dax) emerging from its burrow on this day sees a shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter will persist for six more weeks, and if he does not, due to cloudiness, spring season will arrive early.
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Punxsutawney Pa, Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog on Sunday declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.”At sunrise on Groundhog Day, members of Punxsutawney Phil’s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed the cuddly oracle’s prediction , his 134th “prognostication,” to be exact according to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office.
Awoken by the crowd’s chants of “Phil!” the groundhog was hoisted in the air for the assembly to hail before making his decision. He then grasped the glove of a handler as a member of his inner circle announced that spring would come early this year.
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Ridgewood NJ, today is Super Bowl LIV the San Francisco 49ers will play against the Kansas City Chiefs, exactly 50 years since the Kansas team won its first Super Bowl title or believe it or nor Groundhog Day, you’d only be partially correct.
If the date is read from left to right and then from right to left, the sequence remains the same, which makes it a palindrome.A palindrome is a word, phrase or sequence of numbers that can be read the same way forward and backward. Some other examples of palindromes: “racecar,” “mom,” “dad” and “Red rum, sir, is murder.”
Continue reading Cross Super Bowl Sunday with Ground Hog Day and you Get a Palindrome
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Punxsutawney PA, PETA is suggesting Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog call it a career. In a press release The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Punxsutawney Groundhog Club president Bill Deeley on Tuesday morning and asked for Punxsutawney Phil to retire “to a reputable sanctuary and start using a cutting-edge animatronic groundhog that could actually predict the weather using artificial intelligence instead,”
