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63A Woman's guide to Mens' Secrets about their private parts
Remember that book, "Men are from Mars: that's why women don't understand the penis"? It's true. No matter how much your man loves you, he's never going to reveal the secret things that he does with his...
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62Legalizing, Selling, and Taxing EVERYTHING
Back in our nation's salad days of the 1950s -except for foreign territories like Las Vegas - there was no legalized gambling. There were of course, bookies and numbers men. The 'daily number' was a...
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62The Bad Girl - Part Two
Mary went to an all-girls high school. Well,........... on the rare days that she actually went, it was to an all girls school. She hated it, wanting instead to go to a regular school - one with boys...
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73New Way to Convert F to C & a bunch of other Semi-Useful Stuff
In Massachusetts and the rest of the United States, the air temperature is measured in degrees of Fahrenheit. This perfectly wonderful scale was used in most of the world up until a short while ago. Some time...
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67How to Survive the Great Depression of 2009
Let‘s talk about this. A depression is not great! The term “Great Depression” is an oxymoron. In fact, it’s one of the top five oxymorons of all time: right alongside ‘Jumbo Shrimp’,...
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59Big Band Life 1942 - part two
Life with a ‘colored’ Big Band in the 1940s was about as romantic as a romp with a pillow. If fortunes were good and the outfit picked up some profitable gigs, the members got to share a cheap hotel...
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71Big Band Life & Segregation in the 1940s
The crowded train chugged out of Grand Central Station on a freezing afternoon in the winter of 1942. The 'Silver Meteor' roared, and snorted hot steam; engulfing the dirty snow on either side of the...
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70Who Stole Luis Russell and Why?
I’ll give you the answer to the 'who' right away. Louis Armstrong did it. The Hello Dolly & What a Wonderful World guy. That Louis Armstrong. Yes, he did it and he even admitted it. So Armstrong...
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67Princess Scargo's Legend - Could it be Real?
The Nobscussett Indians had a single, tiny village of barely one hundred people, in the summer of 1600. Their Chief, Sagem, was not remarkable in appearance or ability. The tribe survived from one moon to the...
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54Eight year old finds Big Diamond in yard
It would have been a great story if that rock I found in the backyard really was a diamond. I was playing with my tin soldiers over by the grapevines, when I saw it sparkle at me. I picked it up and it...
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