What do New York and Argentina have in common? France and the Philippines? Seattle and Moscow? Marin County, California, and Haiti? Staten Island, Luzon, Red Square, the Tiburon Peninsula.

What does a math teacher sing on New Year's Eve? Auld lang sine. Why can't he get a home loan? Nobody will cosine. Why can't his students follow his lectures? He's always off on a tangent. He'd like to stop punning, but it's a compulsion, so of cosecant.

We all must remember the fifth of November, when Will shot the goose, the cattle came home, no more to roam, and the old sow played the deuce. — obligatory annual recitation in my family

Grace Luella Solomon Penn, who would have been 143 years old today.

Hugh Scott Penn, Henderson Field, Guadalcanal (1944)

Jean Sewell Penn, ca. 1940

Why is the airport of Lukla, Nepal, the only airport in the world that is perfect for taxiing?

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