"Drip". Synchronicity.

Fighting On Film, one of the podcasts I listed to, just dropped an episode on The Professionals.  Like all of their episodes, this one is well worth listening to.

In this episode, one of the hosts compliments Lee Marvin's "drip", and then going on to explain that "drip" is British slang for sharp and cool clothing. The phrase is used numerous times in the podcast, with it also noted that Marvin is "just dripping".

When I came home (I was listening to it while driving) I noted the phrase to my wife.

This morning 

Oddly enough, this morning new Alaska Congressman Mary Peltola used it in a tweet, showing herself in an outdoor photo wearing a purple native parka.  Her tweet stated:

Is this what the kids call… drip?

What are the odds?

Thursday, January 1, 1914. The Last Peaceful New Years of the 1910s.

It was the first day in a fateful year. One that would ultimately result in a war that would change the world forever.

Prohibition had not yet come to the U.S., so many people were probably slumbering off the effects of ringing in the New Year the night prior.  Catholics were headed to Mass for a Holy Day of Obligation. Businesses were closed in the Christian world for the day.  

It would be the last New Year many of them would spend in peace for many years.

Not all were in peace right then.  Pancho Villa's forces, under the command of Gen. Torbio Ortega Ramierez, attacked Federal troops occupying Ojinaga, a town on the U.S. border.  It forced the Federal troops into cover, but artillery kept the Villista's from storming the town.

Ojinaga was founded around 1200 by Pueblo Indians.

Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated by the British.

The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line started services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida.  By doing so, they became the first airline to provide regularly scheduled flights.

The Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps was given the responsibility for the operation of British military airships.