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88How to Become Rich
While many people dream of becoming rich, most never achieve this dream. Of course, rich is a relative term with regard to financial wealth, as the average poor or middle class person today enjoys luxuries...
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84No Irish Need Apply A History of The Irish in America, Circa 1850
One of the great mysteries in my past will be that of my second great grandfather, Patrick Murphy. Lost, among the many Irish souls that came before me, he has remained. I think that he has become somewhat of...
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83Alternate-Day Fasting: Does it Help?
Is there a dieting secret? A recent study finds that fasting every other day may help. Not that it's easy. Think about it. For tens of thousands of years, our ancestors moved around from place to place,...
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83Irish Boxty Potato Cakes and The Potato Famine: One Million To Remember
My Irish grandmother made this recipe on a cast-iron pan over an open turf fire. Boxty (pronounced Bocshthy) is a potato recipe that originated in North Connaught and Southern Ulster. My family is from the...
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79Why Stockpile Food?
With grocery stores overflowing with food, drink, produce, and snacks, why would anyone consider stockpiling food? It's costly, unnecessary and just plain crazy! I will first highlight some instances in...
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81The Rise in Global Food Prices Is Famine Inevitable
Recently as I looked at CNN, I saw a story that Walmart, one the United States largest retailer was rationing rice to its customers. I could not believe it. The US? Rationing rice? According to the...
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80Top 10 Celtic Films for St. Patrick's Day
Some Celtic people may or may not be making crop circles in the middle of the night, but Celts and their descendants have surely made outstanding films to enjoy on St. Patrick's Day.
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78Genetically Modified Crops Threaten Traditional Farming
Genetically modified crops patented by large seed companies threaten plant diversity. Genetically modified, patented seeds are putting an end to the traditional farming methods of seed saving and seed sharing
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76Diary of Hope Georgia
Diary of Hope Georgia Abstract To comprehend the nature of these journal entries, the reader must imagine how it must feel to be a young girl, traveling alone, to a distant and strange land, in the 1850s,...
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76How Potatoes Changed The World
The Irish Famine -- Scene at the gate of the work-house Appearing in practically every color in the rainbow, the lowly potato has changed the world for many centuries in ways that most have never imagined....
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