• Hubs
  • tagged hubpages profile

1-10 of 98 hubssort by Hot Best Latest

73

Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls

It's great to be alive, to breathe fresh air, to hear the robins sing and see the rising sun, to be free, to be part of mankind. Life, despite trials and tribulations, is joyous; it is ethereal, evaporating, sooner or later, into, for the faithful, the heavens.

20 comments    politics video hubpages
Today in History -- May 29, 1953: New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border. The duo reached the top of the world after a gruelling climb.73

Sources Go With Facts

If I know something to be a fact, that's good enough for me. Nevertheless, you can't just state a fact without fear of contradiction. Often, when I state what to me is a fact, someone always wants to know: Where did you hear that? Answer? Today in History!

26 comments    fun video hubpages
Former United States Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist73

Do What's Constitutional

Police officers have a tough and dangerous job -- and they deserve our support. Our support, however, should be for the law, and for giving police officers the backing they need to carry out their lawful function in relative safety.

4 comments    video hubpages car
Lotto Winner76

State Lotto Winners: Beware!

If you're ever lucky enough to win the Connecticut Lotto, don't quit your day job yet, or at least until you check the bottom line on your bank account. Lotto officials like to tout the top line figure, but when all is said and done the amount you get may disappoint you.

12 comments    advice money tips
Retirement Activities Guide70

For Retirees: Here Are Some Things To Do

While facing retirement is not exactly like awaiting a triple bypass or facing the prospect of entering a nursing home, it can be a source of great stress. After all, everybody has to do something! Here's some ideas that could help relieve such foreboding.

11 comments    advice video hubpages
Looking north on Main Avenue, part of State Route 7, Norwalk, Connecticut69

Is It Avenue, Or Street, Or Who Cares?

Municipalities, like all of us, sometimes make mistakes. In a short street I lived on in Darien, Connecticut, the name on the street signs was spelled differently on each end of the street. In Norwalk, Connecticut, stores adjacent to each other in the same shopping center have different street names.

7 comments    video hubpages news
Computer Age children at work68

Educators Heading the Wrong Way

It's the first thing you hear whenever children get into trouble: Where are the parents? Of course, parents are responsible, but the real problem is that America's school systems have not kept up with the changing nature of our economy, nor with social advances.

16 comments    family education children
(HUGH GRANNUM/Detroit Free Press) Diane Zalecki of Royal Oak's nurse-examiner program uses a special camera to accurately measure injuries of an assault victim. (HUGH GRANNUM/Detroit Free Press) Diane Zalecki of Royal Oak's nurse-examiner prog68

All the Names If You Please

Withholding the names of women who accuse men of rape became widely discussed when the William Kennedy Smith case surfaced. Most media declared they would protect the accuser by not revealing her name and by not showing her face. The trial drew unbridled media attention.

2 comments    women video hubpages
fotosearch.com72

The Blog Database for Hubbers

Link Your Blogs Here for "The Blog Database for Hubbers" The links will then be transferred to this database. My new friend Iphigenia, who only joined HubPages in February 2009 but has already published 20...

internet marketing writing
Presa Canario69

To Any Dog That Bites: Bite the Dust

It's a rare bird indeed who doesn't like, or love, domesticated animals, especially pets. But, naturally, animals sometimes behave like animals. Incidents of dogs biting people have created calls for some kind of action.

73 comments    video hubpages pets
working