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76Massacre of Glencoe
Possibly the most infamous incident in a bloody and violent Scottish history took place in Glencoe early one snowy morning on the 13th of February 1692. The MacIan’s, a small sect of the mighty clan...
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89Christmas Pudding
Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year. The days are shorter and the weather colder and inviting to stay at home, a time of conviviality and intimacy. Lovely smells of wood burning on the...
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74Famous Birthday Listings: March 15
Below are some very famous celebrities (70 names) past and present who have their birthday today. Some of them you will have heard of and others you may not have! These Famous Birthday Galleries make...
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74Life at the Ronald McDonald House, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Ronald MacDonald House was built in 1974 and was the first of its kind in the world. Since then, close to 300 Ronald MacDonald Houses help families with critically ill children every day.
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81Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman wrote his first novel, This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, as a seventh grade English project. By the time he was 21 years old, he had published nine novels for children and young adults....
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75What To Put In A First Letter To A Prison Pen Pal
The need for a letter writing guide for communicating with prison pen pals became clear to me in 2004. At that time, my wife and I lived in Anaconda, Montana. More days than not, my "me time" was spent having...
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70The Evolution of Paul Newman's PI from Harper to Pool
"I ran a check on you, Mr. Harper. You are not stupid," J.H. Kilbourne (Murray Hamilton) said. "I have my moments," Lew Harper (Paul Newman) responded in 1975's The Drowning Pool. The same can said about...
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73Famous Birthday Listings: February 23
Below are some very famous celebrities (45 names) past and present who have their birthday today. Some of them you will have heard of and others you may not have! These Famous Birthday Galleries make...
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63Book Review: Son Of The Mob ~ Gordon Korman
Vince Luca is normal, an average teen.. at school. Yet Vince's family is a little different, his father is head of a serious crime cooperation. Which puts a serious problem into Vance's dating life. When...
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59Blanket on daddy's grave.
More than 20 years ago, my sister Ann Hofer, along with friend and co-writer Sandy MacDonald and I wrote a song called, "Blanket on daddy's grave." We had worked and re-written the song but always seemed to...
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