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51More Nuggets of Wisdom
Seeking the truth? Here you go. by rlz I’d like to invite some of those who dispute global warming to life on a shrinking ice floe, so I can have some polar bears for neighbors instead. Lonely? Today sixty...
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72An Ordinary Runner in Track Town USA
by Kevin Lamb I was running on the treadmill at my fitness center the other day, something I don’t normally do because I prefer to run outdoors. With apologies to those who are enthusiasts, but I find...
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68Should I Make A New Year's Resolution If I Am Dying
You left and I left, yet my longing was not calmed in my heart. . .my losing you completely changed my days and turned them black, with you my nights were white - Ibn Zaydun Ecclesiastes 3:2 ‘A time to be...
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64Tis The Season
“Things are tough, times are hard so here’s your freaking Christmas Card..”That seems a pervasive sentiment as we close out 2009, let’s face it, it’s been a tough year economically, politically,...
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76Grey nomads
For the past decade or so, Australia has been experiencing a phenomenon known as 'grey nomads' - baby boomers approaching middle age who recall their hippy roots by taking to the road in campervans and...
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72The True Story of Father Time
Things were tough for me in the beginning. In the beginning there was no Time of course. So I was out of a job. But God was good at thinking up odd-jobs for me. He's a great boss. Couldn't ask for better....
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61Feudalsim and the Middle Ages
Feudalism and the Middle Ages: Fief- land owned by a vassal Vassal- someone who words economically and militaristically for a king Knight- heavily armed horseman Manorialism- system in which...
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67Ghosts of Christmas
We normally don't think pf ghosts being connected to Christmas outside of Dicken's Christmas Carol or Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. But in folklore there are many beliefs and superstitions about...
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66How to Become a Werewolf
In the Middle Ages, hysteria about werewolves broke out all over Europe. Many people were accused of being werewolves and were tortured and killed. Over the ages there has been many ways to become a werewolf....
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72my father the hero
My name is Áine. Daughter of Sean and Maureen. Descendant of The O’Connors of Carrigafoyle. Apart from being a reference to one of my and my brother’s favourite films (The 13th Warrior) in which the...
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