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How to Start Your Own Nonprofit or Charity Organization

Our old world is in desperate need of help. Here's one powerful way to get started.

9 comments    business life advice
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The Frugal Housekeeper: Your One-Stop Pantry, Medicine Cabinet and Broom Closet

One can easily spend hundreds of dollars on fancy chemicals with fumes that do nasty things to skin, lungs and the environment. BUT ... we can replace a lot of the fume-y stuff with natural products we're probably already buying for the kitchen pantry.

10 comments    advice home tips
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Frugal Software: Open Source, Public Domain, Shareware & Freeware

Why pay retail? You don't have to sacrifice functionality or fun -- or compatibility with everyone else's software -- for the sake of thrift. There are alternatives.

11 comments    free software save money
"I'm not a humanitarian.  I'm a hellraiser."76

Heroine of the Month (August): Mary Harris, the Original "Mother Jones"

According to Mary Harris herself, she was born on May 1, 1830. But according to other records, she was born on August 1, 1837. What is certain is that she a pivotal figure in building the modern U.S. labor movement.

5 comments    education american history iww
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How the President of The United States is Elected

This is, hopefully, a not-too-direly-doomed attempt to clarify a process that confuses U.S. citizens and fascinated foreigners alike.

5 comments    education how politics
This is what happens when you skip your breakfast and gulp down your lunch. You have been warned.66

Feed Your Head: Healthy Foods for Happier Moods

The wrong foods -- or the wrong amounts of the right foods -- can have a bad effect on mental performance and mood. Here are some tips for turning it around.

3 comments    health advice how to
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Was Christopher Columbus Really the First to Discover America?

Who really did discover America?

9 comments    education america discover
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The Frugal Veggie Farm: Containers & Raised Beds for Small Spaces & Budgets

Dedicated to all the thrifty virtuous souls who, upon resolving to grow their own salads in the interest of self-sufficiency, marched to their local nursery, only to be cut down by sticker shock. To these -- our crestfallen Heroes -- we say, "Never give up, never surrender!"

14 comments    how to home gardening
Maria Sibylla Merian in old age, with samples of butterflies and seashells that she had collected in her travels.76

Heroine of the Month (November): Maria Sibylla Merian, Scientist & Artist

Our heroine for November brought a larger world to scientists and students of botany and zoology, raising their base of knowledge. And she left works of enduring -- and scientifically accurate -- beauty for us to enjoy.

6 comments    education history art history
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How American Women Won the Right to Vote

The Nineteenth Amendment (informally called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment), granting full voting rights to women across the United States of America, was adopted on August 26, 1920. Happy 88th Birthday to all women voters in the United States of America!

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