Tag: culture
group name: famiilyhistory
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June 21, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
As you look down from the hillside onto the apparent perfection of Malta's Blue Lagoon, you struggle to imagine it in any other condition. Land embraces lagoon like a protective parent. Water shines . . . more
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September 13, 2006 12:49 AM EDT --
Tonight during my teevee hour with the dawg I watched a "LEGENDS:" show on the comedy Channel.
"RODNEY DANGERFIELD" was the subject.
My poor skills do not do justice to begin to . . . more
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June 27, 2006 06:47 PM EDT --
In 1793, the Upper Canada Act Against Slavery was passed. The Act was inspired by Governor J. G. Simcoe and made Upper Canada (now Ontario) the first British Colony to legislate against slavery.
Slavery . . . more
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June 14, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
This is interesting enough to share..
operative line is: "He said no customer had ever been turned away because of the policy."
L.
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PHILADELPHIA - An . . . more
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July 19, 2006 03:20 AM EDT --
On Being a Lady in this Century
My granddaughter turns five years old today. It has been three years since we have seen her in person. She was so little that last time, that my concerns were not . . . more
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July 31, 2006 09:49 PM EDT --
I recently said I have trouble distinguishing the music of Lionel Ritchie from that of Kenny Rogers – not that I've ever voluntarily listened to either one. I just grew up in a town where you . . . more
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May 28, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
Prevailing American wisdom holds that most Canadians live in igloos, or so we Canadians have been told all our lives. I could probably build an igloo in my backyard this week, but that's beside the . . . more
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November 23, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
It was 1995, we worked tech support for a contractor to one of the biggest "traditional" computer makers in the world, (no not THAT one), and were nursing users through the conversion from Windows . . . more
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May 29, 2006 12:40 AM EDT --
fresh spun web
single strand
winds its way around the hoop,
crossing itself
over and over
diamonds cascade
between hoop and
jeweled heart, clustered
feathers form a draped triangle
meant . . . more
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April 28, 2006 10:36 PM EDT --
Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery at Edenton, North Carolina in 1813. Her mother, Delilah, was the daughter of a slave. Her father, Daniel, was a carpenter, owned by doctor Andre Knox. His father . . . more
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June 27, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
Well, it ain't Lonesome Dove. It ain't even Crossfire Trail or any of the L'Amours made into a movie but it had a dignity and a pace to it that was refreshing.
Now if they only believed . . . more
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May 07, 2006 04:27 PM EDT --
Today my grandson, who joined the Navy Cadets in March, marched in his first parade. That may not seem like a big thing, but this grandson has Asperger's Syndrome. He has trouble with social interaction . . . more
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July 13, 2006 01:23 PM EDT --
One of the nicest, slickest, best produced slideshows I have EVER seen and I've been at it since you had to make sure they were in rightside/upside down up in the trays...
Like Robert Kleins' . . . more
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August 17, 2006 09:55 PM EDT --
We were in bed, some motel on the road,
the teevee all that was going on.
As in so many days and nights together at that point.
I know it was the road because we had no teevee in the bedroom at home. . . . more
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September 24, 2006 07:01 PM EDT --
I spotted this last week.
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December 06, 2006 12:39 PM EST --
When I was a young fellow in a central Florida High school I took a part time job working in a locally owned 'mom & pop' gas station.
None of your self serve here, (this was about 1968-69), . . . more
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August 19, 2006 03:32 PM EDT --
Now that I'm officially OLD I can do stuff like this..
Her name, I think was Marylin, and I had a huge crush on her. I think there was the possibility of return but for one thing.. he was about our . . . more
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May 01, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
I am a Baby Boomer. I grew up in the era of Rock & Roll, Drive In Movies and Burger Joints. One of my favorite haunts in those days was the Shake N' Burger. It is a place that will be forever in . . . more
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June 22, 2006 08:52 PM EDT --
My article "A Bunch of Rocks: The Environmental Gutting of Malta", which I posted yesterday (June 21), has been selected as Editors' Choice and will appear on the Gather home page starting . . . more
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November 02, 2006 11:53 PM EST --
History has always been a passion of mine, and this is one of my favorite stories.
Marian Anderson was a brilliant opera singer who embarked on her impressive career during the late 1920's. She . . . more
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