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November 13, 2009
- This is that time of year when every lapel sports a red paper poppy to commemorate fallen British soldiers. A beautiful tradition followed by the young and old, soldier and civilian alike. It speaks to a nation that remembers. When I first came to England, my boyfriend told me the story of a friend who had an idea to hire an airplane to fly over the Thames and release 3 million poppies. ...
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November 12, 2009
- From the moment we're born, each of us is thrust into a conflict that's existed for the entirety of human civilization. Depending on our circumstance, the place where we grew up, our social status, our race, gender, sexual orientation, or spiritual inclination, each of us have, or inevitably will, experience personal trauma so utterly devastating to our individual identity that the invisible ...
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November 12, 2009
- Kafka partook of all three in Prague, though he felt the city was his prison. Kudos for mentioning that Kafka wrote in one of the houses on Alchemist's Lane (a book of short stories). However, a "tsk tsk" for saying Prague Castle was the setting of Kafka's THE CASTLE. It was not. Prague: Romance, revolutions - and beer Prague's culture, cafés and fairytale architecture make it an ...
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November 8, 2009
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 13There is an admiration of Greek culture in today’s society and has long been acclaimed for its influences on western civilization. The Athenian empire was established with the triumph over Persian King Xerxes and ended after the battle of Corinth around 146 BC. Universities build brotherhood and sisterhood organizations based on its ...
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November 5, 2009
- Do we teach about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in American schools? Should we?Remember, remember the fifth of November,The gunpowder treason and plot,I know of no reasonWhy the gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot.LOOK! I buried the lead! WINTERGIRLS made the Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2009 list!And from the Misc. List, Bookavore has a great idea for how to get the books ...
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October 31, 2009
- My characters are in a sea battle (on a minor scale - longboats vs. fishing boats) and from one of the boats a shot is fired by a "huckbuk" (there are various spellings). This is (more or less) a prototype of a rifle, though it has no stock. The 'huck' is a hook which is used to support the weapon and reduce recoil. I have to describe this without becoming a teacher. Probably one ...
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October 28, 2009
- Shalloween? What we think is shallowJust may be a gallowDon’t fall asleep on a true meaning so deepConsider the Eve of All HallowsHuman discernment unkeenHistoric and modern attrocities unseenYet in naïve merriment still they sayHere comes the “ween”Ten thirty oneMerry and mirthScary and fun. http://bit.ly/1AAQdB www.twitter.com/questfortruth
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October 27, 2009
- So my youngest son is a history major, and I've learned about all number of small wars I'd never heard about and large wars in times long gone. While reading his papers, I've been in Korea, China, Europe, and as of yesterday, French Algeria. I haven't paid much attention to Algeria, ever, except in how it relates to culture references such as Casablanca. I have nothing against Algeria, I'm ...
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October 26, 2009
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 11EmpiresThe first world empire according to record is the Babylonian empire under King Nebuchadnezzar in (August of 605 B.C.) the residue of real estate remaining is modern day Iraq. The second empire consisted of the global domination of the Medes and Persians (550 B.C.) and the residue of real estate remaining is in the land of Iran. The third ...
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October 25, 2009
- Today marks St. Crispin’s Day -- a commemoration of two saints, actually: Crispin and Crispinian. According to tradition both men were shoemakers who were martyred at Soissons at the end of the 3rd century. But I don’t generally think of shoes or shoemakers on this day... I think of one of my favorite high school teachers. In the pantheon of teachers who shaped me into the woman I am ...
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