Tag: culture
group name: historycanbefun
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October 31, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
Everyone knows that today marks the death of Harry Houdini, the legendary escape artist who departed this world on Halloween. But did you know that his mentor, Harry Kellar, was really the first, great . . . more
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July 02, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
"Culture is knowledge applied with wisdom." ---- Josei Toda (2nd Soka Gakkai President)
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December 19, 2006 08:10 PM EST --
The world is full of stories about lost gold mines and treasures. The most famous might be the Lost Dutchman Mine of the southwest. . . . more
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July 24, 2007 07:32 PM EDT --
I, Catherine Huber, sit at table, pen in hand. In trepidation, we await the ever brewing battles we have rumour of. Simple farmers we are and have no need for war, but face it we . . . more
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January 02, 2008 04:39 PM EST --
Having been born in 1946, I can recall thinking as a young girl that I would be old when the ball dropped in Times Square in the year 2000. Well, I got to see 2000 and am chugging along happily in 2008. . . . more
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September 03, 2007 01:58 AM EDT --
.... felt odd! I work tomorrow, so thoday was my holiday! I spent the day cleaning and organizing things in the house, fixed and put together the stereo that's been sitting in the front room . . . more
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October 20, 2007 06:31 PM EDT --
I actually hadn't heard of this one until it was pretty much over. New York Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton, both Democrats, had inserted a $1 million earmark into a health and . . . more
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September 03, 2007 02:08 PM EDT --
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November 27, 2007 06:01 PM EST --
It’s deer season in my neck of the woods, but if you’d rather hunt for antiques, Christmas gifts, and a winter’s worth of reading, take off the camouflage and set your sights for Warren, . . . more
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June 24, 2008 07:39 PM EDT --
We all know what urban myths are but there are rural myths that are also apocryphal in origin. One in particular I have heard . . . more
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December 19, 2006 08:02 PM EST --
Throughout the world cultures have stories of all sorts of creatures. Some are benign, others dangerous, some human in form but larger . . . more
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December 19, 2006 08:05 PM EST --
I can remember my grandfather telling me as a kid while out on one of our forays into the field, about a place named "The Huey or Yuey Rock". The Huey Rock was a place where there . . . more
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September 06, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
The First Stirrings of Cultural Conflict.
It all kicked off on 9/11. But in order to understand we have to go back a while.
Bahadur Shah Zafar looked out of his window on the morning of May 11, 1857 . . . more
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July 06, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
Last week I posed a question to the audience and today I will ask you to entertain a similar one. There is another "rural . . . more
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April 02, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
Part 4 and conclusion of the Series A Short History of Abortion and Contraception.
Read earlier parts first: Part 1 Cavewomen and Contraception Part 2 Bronze Age Birth Control Part 3 . . . more
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May 03, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
Like a secret passageway that leads into the heart and soul of America, scenic U.S. Route 6 stretches 440 miles acro ss Pennsylvania's northern tier, through forests and farmland, mountains, rivers . . . more
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March 31, 2008 12:32 PM EDT --
Part 3 of the Series A Short History of Abortion and Contraception.
Read earlier parts first: Part 1 Cavewomen and Contraception Part 2 Bronze Age Birth Control
Readers who prefer LARGER . . . more
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August 21, 2007 06:33 PM EDT --
On Easter this year I was watching a program on CNN featuring a priest, rabbi, and the commentator who himself seemed to come from . . . more
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February 13, 2008 03:07 PM EST --
I have just been watching the Congressional hearings on the steroid scandal in baseball. As a baseball fan I must say it was . . . more
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August 26, 2007 07:18 PM EDT --
I can only see an advertisement so many times before I wonder what the fuss is all about. Adverts for the “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World” exhibition at the Atlanta History . . . more
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