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89Driving Through a Dust Storm
For most people dust is something to clean up with a vacum cleaner or dust rag. However, in dry desert areas with limited vegetation to hold the sandy soil in place, sand and dust are easily picked up and...
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86Sea Travel - Luxury on the High Seas
Cruising is a major segment of the tourism industry and a popular way to vacation. Unlike other means of transportation, where the vehicle is simply a means to get to one's destination, on a cruise, the...
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88Adventures in Academia - A Quarter Century as an Adjunct Economics Instructor
November 24, 2009 Turning on my computer and logging into HubPages the other morning I was greeted with an notice that I had three requests from other Hubbers. Two of the requests came from the same...
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85Canada's Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site
A number of years ago while living back in my hometown of Rochester, New York and working in my first job which provided me with a two-week paid vacation, I teamed up with my younger brother and sister, who...
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88An Indian Alternative to Obamacare
November 22, 2009 While the President and his hard left allies in Congress struggle to get rid of our present, less than perfect health care payment system, and replace the entire United States health care...
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95Year of the Tiger - Chinese New Year 2010 and Other New Year Observances
When we speak of the New Year, the date that comes to most people's minds is January 1st the date that many of the old Roman calendars as well as the modern Gregorian and Julian calendars use as the start of...
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80Black Sand Beach at Punalu'u Hawaii
On the southeast coast of the Big Island of Hawaii is a little park with a beautiful black sand beach.As I described in my Hub The Island of Hawaii and its Six Volcanoes the black sand is the result of the...
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86Captain James I Waddell - The Man Who Fought the Civil War in Alaska
According to the history books, the American Civil was a war between the Northern States and the Southern States with most of the states involved and most of the fighting taking place in the eastern half of...
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85Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm Fjord Alaska
November 2009 One of the many highlights of an Alaskan Cruise is coming face to face with a glacier. The Tracy/Endicott Arm Fjord is one of the many spectacular Fjords dotting the Alaskan coastline. ...
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76That Darn Orangutan is Now a Lieutenant Colonel
Visiting the orangutan exhibit at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo this past summer I was reminded of a war story my Father used to tell us when we were young. My Father served in the Army in the South Pacific...
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