#happy #newyear to everyone! The #management under #construction #podcast closed the year with a record number of #downloads. So #thankful to all our #listeners !!

Our #books Self-Paced #sustainability #reducing #impact on your terms was a #fan #favorite for the #holidays as was Mara Meets Sandra's #sweet #rolls.

Happy, safe and #prosperous New Year to you all!!

🌿 Celebrate Chhath Puja 2025! 🌿
Come together with family and community to offer prayers to Surya Dev and #ChhathiMaiya. 🌞
May your day be filled with devotion, #joy, and divine blessings. 💛
Wishing everyone a safe, #prosperous, and #spiritually fulfilling #ChhathPuja!
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#HappyChhathPuja #ChhathPuja2025 #ChhathMaaKiJai #ChhathFestival #SunGodBlessings #SunWorship #छठपर्व #छठपूजा #छठमैयाकीजय #सूर्यदेवकीजय #छठव्रत #भक्ति_और_आस्था #myfirstcollege
🌸 On the occasion of Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti, we remember a visionary leader known for his #principles of #equality, #unity, and economic progress.
May his teachings inspire us to build fair, #inclusive, and #prosperous communities. 🙏
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#AgrasenJayanti #MaharajaAgrasenJayanti #LegacyOfCompassion #Leadership #महाराजा_अग्रसेन #MaharajaAgrasen #UnityAndCompassion #Unity #Inspiration #Celebration #globaljurix

This fellow had a very specific agenda, displaying on one branch, then repositioning, then displaying, then moving, then he ran over to a different bush and displayed on that one. His lands are vast and prosperous!

#anole #lizard #dewlap #prosperous

“It doesn’t mean our work is done. Far from it. …No one should confuse why I’m here,” #Biden said. “I’m not here to take a victory lap. I’m not here to say a job well done. I’m not here to say we don’t have a hell of a lot more work to do. We do have more work to do.

“But what I am here to speak about is how far we’ve come, how we got here, & most importantly the foundation that I believe built for a more #prosperous & #equitable future in #America,” Biden said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4888973-biden-economic-agenda-trump-policies/

#Indigenous people need to stick together to overcome obstacles and have #prosperous communities, writes columnist Xavier Kataquapit.

https://windspeaker.com/under-northern-sky-xavier-kataquapit/we-need-stick-together

We Need To Stick Together

By Xavier Kataquapit Windspeaker.com I have been working in media as an Indigenous journalist, columnist and videographer for more than a quarter century at this point. This has been such an incredible experience and continues to be for so many reasons. Perhaps the biggest reason I love this work is because I continually learn from every story I must research and all of the amazing Elders, Chiefs, council members, Indigenous and non-Indigenous people that I interview.

Windspeaker.com

#Hatshepsut

by Joshua J. Mark (one of the sources for my "Women in the Ancient World" presentation)
19 October 2016

"Hatshepsut (r. 1479-1458 BCE) was the first female ruler of ancient Egypt to reign as a male with the full authority of #pharaoh. Her name means 'Foremost of Noble Women' or 'She is First Among Noble Women'. She began her reign as regent to her stepson Thutmose III (r. 1458-1425 BCE) who would succeed her.

"Initially, she ruled as a woman as depicted in statuary but, at around the seventh year of her reign, she chose to be depicted as a #MalePharaoh in statuary and reliefs though still referring to herself as female in her inscriptions. She was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty during the period known as the New Kingdom (c. 1570 to c. 1069 BCE) and regarded as one of the most #prosperous and the era of the Egyptian Empire.

"Although she is sometimes cited as the first female ruler of Egypt, or the only one, there were women who reigned before her such as #Merneith (r. c. 3000 BCE) in the Early Dynastic Period (probably as regent) and #Sobeknefru (r. c. 1807-1802 BCE) in the Middle Kingdom and #Twosret (r. 1191-1190 BCE) after her toward the end of the 19th Dynasty. Hatshepsut, though not the first or last, is undoubtedly the best-known female ruler of ancient Egypt after #Cleopatra VII (r. c. 69-30 BCE) and one of the most successful monarchs in Egyptian history."

Read more:
https://www.worldhistory.org/hatshepsut/

#AncientEgypt #FemaleRulers #AncientHistory #WomensRights #AncientWomen #Histodon

Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut (r. 1479-1458 BCE) was the first female ruler of ancient Egypt to reign as a male with the full authority of pharaoh. Her name means

World History Encyclopedia
Here's the source data for stat Statista chart. By the default sorting the #US is the #19th #most #prosperous #nation, behind Belgium, Austria, Norway ... well, most of Europe actually. And Singapore and Iceland. And New Zealand and Australia.

But hey! We're ahead of
#Estonia (by a little) and Bulgaria. That's not so terrible, right?

Sort by
#healthcare, and we're worse off than ... Armenia, Jamaica, Albania, Belarus, Iran, Croatia, Uzbekistan ... we're only nine places ahead of Nicaragua. Twentieth in education. 29th in living conditions.

Greatest nation on earth? Hah! Yeah, if you're a CORPORATION or a multimillionaire.

But hey, we're safe and secure in the US, right?

Nope. 69th place again. You're less safe in the United States than in Moldova, Serbia, Namibia or Laos.
Play with the chart a little. It's ... enlightening to see where the US's strengths are ... and its weaknesses.
Rankings :: Legatum Prosperity Index 2023

Over the last ten years the Legatum Institute, through the Legatum Prosperity Index™, has tracked the journey of 167 nations in order to answer these questions. The results explain how and why nations

Legatum Prosperity Index 2023

It means a more solitary life, but at least I have one. For that, I am grateful now, and every day.

This year, I vow to make a difference locally. To get grassroots efforts together to clean the air, and to borrow a phrase, have a HEPA New Year.

Schools, restaurants, theatres, malls, and everywhere that is public should be implementing ways to purify the air we share.

Here's to a #healthy and #prosperous #newyear!