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Category Archives: history related

Eight Years Later …

Always remember, never forget … I created this image just after September 11, 2001 and each year I post it in memory of everyone who lost their life in the attacks on the WTC towers, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, along with the rescuers that gave their lives as well. Its hard to believe its...

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Mid Week Loves

… the year end edition! Ah, its New Year’s Eve! How the heck did that sneak up on us so quickly? I swear it should still be mid year! I hate to break it to whoever coined the phrase, “Time flies when you’re having fun,” that they are completely wrong! I wouldn’t describe 2008 as...

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A story in six words

Jasmine Star’s hosting a contest — following Hemingway’s lead with writing a story in six words. Well, here’s my entry + the image that inspired it. Arrived. Humbled. Inspired. Captured. Forever changed. I’m in Fredericksburg this weekend sightseeing, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of Weihnachten (Christmas Festival) as well as the activities surrounding...

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Rock the Boat …

I mean, Rock the Vote! As my cousin put it via the mass email he sent out last night … If you don’t VOTE, then Don’t Complain… If you do not vote for either candidate tomorrow, you give up your right to complain about the winner’s performance for the next four years. Be Sure to...

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One Hundred

No — this isn’t the 100th entry, hit that awhile back … It occurred to me early this morning when I was writing the date down on a folder at work that, had my grandfather still been living, he would be 100 years old today. So — in lieu of this week’s Mid Week Loves,...

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Always Remember, Never Forget …

  I created this image just after September 11, 2001 and each year I post it in memory of everyone who lost their life in the attacks on the WTC towers, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, along with the rescuers that gave their lives as well.

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The Miracle Man

I saw this article late yesterday afternoon and then arrived home in time to catch a news story about this soldier on ABC World News Tonight. I couldn’t help but cry twice, once while reading the article about this brave soldier, and then while watching the story. He truly was and is an inspiration. Now...

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history crumbling away…

Seen at Yahoo! News: ‘Sweet’ cemetery, home to Keats, Shelley, crumbling in Rome

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the $100 man

According to Visit London.com… The world’s only remaining home of Benjamin Franklin was opened to the public as a museum and educational facility on 17 January 2006, to coincide with Franklin’s 300th birthday. In London. Who’d have thought?

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symbols

Via my daily inbox email: Symbols.com Symbols.com contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. The histories, uses, and meanings of all the most important signs that range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti are thoroughly...

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