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A Wonderful Flick
The holiday ChesTnuT It’s a Wonderful Life debuted 75 years ago, and it was kind of a flop.
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Reviews were frosty after the film’s premiere, December 20, 1946, at New York’s Globe Theatre, and it bombed at the box office.
But in the 1970s, it landed on cable TV and has been pretty much unavoidable during the holiday season ever since.
—ZuZu BAiLey
TRue TRekkeR
As a little girl, Vanessa Wyche watched nichelle nichols portray Lt. nyota uhura in Star Trek. “i got inspiration by seeing someone on a tV screen that looked like me, that made me think that i could do that,” Wyche said in a July interview with Texas Standard.
Wyche, below, director of the Johnson Space center in houston since June, is the first Black woman to lead a nASA center. the multidecade veteran of the space agency prioritizes safety and inclusivity in her leadership.
“part of [leading a team] may be understanding that diversity of thought and personnel is very important for us to bring everything to bear,” she said.
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ReCommended Reading
Underwater Theater, from december 2011, took readers along with divers off the Texas coast to see a cast of extraordinary coral reef creatures.
be enlightened
if every American replaced one incandescent lightbulb with an led, we would save about $600 million in annual energy costs and stop 9 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions per year, according to the u.s. environmental Protection Agency. That’s enough to power 3 million homes and roughly the amount of gas produced by 800,000 cars in a year.
A Red-Letter Day
ClaRa baRTon, founder of the American Red Cross, was born 200 years ago this month.
The Red Cross, started in 1881, was largely devoted to disaster relief for its first 20 years. Barton participated in her last relief mission in September 1900, when, at the age of 78, she distributed financial assistance and supplies to survivors of the deadly hurricane and tidal wave that struck Galveston.
Barton was born December 25, 1821, in Massachusetts.
Finish This senTenCe
ThE hARDEsT JoB In ThE WoRlD hAs To BE ...
Tell us how you would finish that sentence. email your short responses to letters@TexasCoopPower.com or comment on our Facebook post. include your co-op and town. Here are some of the responses to our October prompt: i wish i was there
when …
stevie ray vaughan played at Antone’s.
Kim grOssmAn PedernAles eC JOnesTOwn
neil Armstrong famously landed on the moon.
leAnn HOlT grAysOn-COllin eC Allen The winning lottery ticket was being passed across the counter.
JuliA BryAnT sOuTH PlAins eC sPur
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