It's within our nature as humans to want to reach out with a comforting hand to those who have just experienced loss.
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This is my mother! Her 92nd birthday is just over a week away, but the whole month is being filled with Mother's Day activities and I am dedicating the month to mom in my column. The first four shots are from a Mother's Tea at her residence and the last one is from the Moth …
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I have a new business. I'm a rice merchant. That's all I sell. Rice. I have a truckload of the stuff, best quality in the USA, cheapest price west of the Mississippi... well, kind of. My fine, hulled, long-grain rice is one dollar a pound. I'm selling out of a truck parke …
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American Style Environmentalism is Destroying The Environment This is the first of a series of articles exploring the failing model of American Environmentalism. In the series I will be outlining the results of considerable investigation and study of the persons and organiz …
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With border crossings at a 40-year low, the U.S. Border Patrol announced a new strategy Tuesday that targets repeat crossers and tries to find out why they keeping coming.
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The geologic history of the west coast is a long and tumultuous one. 1.5 to 2 billion years ago, the ancient supercontinent of Pangea drifted to the west and bumped in the smaller subcontinents of Columbia and Rodinia. The collision caused tectonic plates to smash the ocean floor …
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I love deserts for their loneliness, desolation and beauty. Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, part of the Mojave, lies just outside Las Vegas, Nevada and was established in 1935. It is named for its predominate red rocks, remnants of 150 million-year-old s …
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Silbury Hill is a Neolithic conical construct, dating from 2,600 - 2,400 BC. Its circular base covers five acres, and an estimated one million tons of clay and chalk were used to build it, making it the largest man-made mound in …
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The ironies of life I guess. I have such issues with bird names..they can have a solid red head and a speck of red on their tummies and they're named Red-Bellied...or they can be spectacular in color and voice and their name begins with "Common". It is one of my pet peeves. Gues …
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Thanks to fellow Viner and good friend, Kavika, I’ve been doing more reading about Native Americans than I ever have before. I thought it would be fun to put together (from my limited knowledge) a list of some of my favorite historical Native Americans. 3: Geronimo
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