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Space Shuttle Atlantis (photos this page, public domain).89

Nugget Family Robinson Welcomes New Writers!

Lost In Space was really one of a series of take-offs on Robinson Crusoe - you know, Disney's Swiss Family Robinson, etc. The TV futuristic series...

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A New Years Celebration Where Time Begins in Tonga

The first country in the world to greet the New Year, each and every year, is Tonga in the South Pacific. That is because it lies very close to the 180th parallel (12 hours ahead of Greenwich). It sits...

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The truth about swine flu jabs

What have I got to do with all this? I don't follow the hype. I haven't done for a long time as I don't have a telly nor do I read a newspaper. For some years I've found what both are offering rather hard...

3 comments    children swine flu pandemic
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GVO - Global Virtual Opportunities

Kiosk.ws, the hosting choice of many of the big Internet marketing gurus, is relaunching under a new brand that will be called Global Virtual Opportunities, or GVO. Kiosk was already well known for being the...

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December Holidays and Observances from Traditional to Off the Wall

Palm Tree Lights At this time of year, we all think about the upcoming holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. November and the early weeks of December will be filled to capacity preparing for Christmas Day....

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Indigenous artifacts made by T'boli Tribe of the Philippines.87

Fair Trade - Good or Bad to Poor Nations?

By Edwin C. Mercurio“When I give food to the poor, they call me asaint. When I ask why the poor have no food,they call me a communist.”- Dom Helda CamaraFair trade advocates told a European...

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Lena Horne in a 1946 film. Ms. Horne often performed at the Cotton Club, where African Amrican Dancers were also light-skinned, some with fair hair. 86

Light Skin and Good Hair

Musician and Actor Cab Calloway, one of my favorites, contributed to a documentary about the Cotton Club in Harlem, NYC many decades ago. He explained at one point that Black Folks often went in the club to...

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Jimmie Johnson driving the #48 Lowe's Chevy Monte Carlo SS in New York city as part of the NASCAR victory lap in 2007. The original image was uploaded to Flickr by Joseph Hoetzl November 28, 2007 under the Creative Commons license. http://www.flickr.75

My Money was on Jimmy Johnson

The first stock car race I ever saw was at a dirt track in Chemung, New York on a July 4th when I was a kid of maybe twelve. I went with my Uncle Nelson, Daddy and cousin Dave. I think that was also the first...

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Putrajaya - City in the Garden

To ease congestion in Kuala Lumpur, a new federal government administration site was searched in 1980s. About 11 320 acres (46 km²) of land in Prang Besar was chosen as the site and the government...

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The show of force that students from across the U.C. system, unions like UAW, and simply concerned community members was astounding. The protests last week (November 18 and 19)suffered from a lack of centralized organization and thought.    There wer71

A Shout into the Churning Masses

 Societal power, at times, converges when a large percentage of the population perceives a common injustice, inequality, and dissatisfaction with how elites have steered the course of their lives.In American...

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