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90Christmas Cards - From Penny Post to CyberPost
According to most sources, Sir Henry Cole of London, England was the first person to send commercially produced Christmas cards. This was done in 1843 when he had a print shop print 2,050 cards with a...
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84Top 10 Nintendo DSi Games of 2009
The Nintendo DSi Has now had time to integrate itself in to the worlds handheld market, and boy has it dominated it. But now that everyone has the console itself I think it is around time we started looking...
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89Unions killed Michigan
When I was a boy growing up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, there was gainful employment for anybody who wanted to work. Whirlpool Corporation, founded in 1900 in Benton Harbor, was the largest employer in...
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89Top Ten Christmas Gifts for Your Boss
Sure you would love to get a gift from your officemate this Christmas. And doubly so if your boss is the one who is going to give you your Christmas gift (generous boss, hello?). But if it’s the other way...
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87A Story of my Life, Part 10
A lot of things happened over the summer I turned 19. Dad retired early from his job at Sylvania GE, where he had worked for 35 years. He didn't miss a day of work, not in 35 years--he got a perfect...
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86A Renaissance Fair
In times past fairs were gatherings where people came to buy and sell their wares. While work was involved, fairs also offered people a chance to get out and meet people they had not seen in a while as well...
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88KU Men's Basketball 2010--Keys to a Championship Season
As the 2010 NCAA college basketball season approaches, the Kansas Jayhawks are picked as Preseason #1 by the AP, ESPN/USA Today, the Sporting News, and every other significant polling service. They are...
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84Vietnam 1968-1969 Or Was It Yesterday?
Some of this was written years ago. Some of it was written more than eight years ago, actually. So much has changed, like my address. I no longer own a bike shop or an inn or a home. My address has...
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86Famous Serial Killers
Henry Lee Lucas Was Henry Lee Lucas America's most horrific serial killer ever or was he really the greatest liar ever. He gave detailed confessions of his crimes but later took back his confessions and said...
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86The Flush Toilet: Time for IT to Go?
Our humble friend, the flush toilet, has been with us in some form or another ... though not always close or convenient ... since the ancient civilizations of the Indus Valley, Minos and Rome. Now interesting times are upon us, and conserve we must. But how? This particular water activity is, well, harder to hold back on than most. This Hub will delve into a couple of alternatives for relieving this dilemma.
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