https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/01/compare-jimmy-carter-100-presidents/

Turning 100 today, Jimmy Carter is the first American President to ever do so. He became the oldest ever former President in 2019. When he was born, Calvin Coolidge was President.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/mallory-disappeared-everest-summit-mystery/index.html

CNN

100 years ago they disappeared on Everest. But did they make it to the summit?

British climbers George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine were last seen on June 8, 1924, 800ft below the peak of Everest, before disappearing into clouds and never reappearing. Nobody knows if they reached the summit before their deaths – but now one researcher…

Thank you for following the D-Day live posts. I did realise that (despite some confusion amongst publications) D-Day time is normally written as GMT+2. My mistake!

Fa’afafine were (and are) expected to carry out womanly jobs around the house. Sometimes, if there was an excess of boys born into a family, one might be chosen to be raised as a Fa’afafine - usually, however, it was not forced upon children and depended upon how they acted when young.