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79Gold Rush Medicines: A Dose of Deception
The westward movement in the United States started in the mid-1800's at the same time as the rise of mass advertising and the marketing of patent medicines. Many pioneers, concerned about the challenges...
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79Silly Person's Guide to a Gold Rush Museum
Visitors from all over the world come into The Mariposa Museum and History Center each year. One of the unique and important things about this museum in California's Gold Country, is that almost all of...
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82Harebrained Names for Beauty Salons
Fanciful and attention getting names are apparently mandatory for hair and nail salons. But you can tell that salon names are not to be taken seriously, because people fearlessly and intentionally walk into...
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75Why America Will NEVER Embrace the Metric System
Despite dire predictions that the U. S. is economically and scientifically doomed because we cannot get metric ideas like Celsius and milligram into our heads, in everyday life we are doing okay with our ...
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68Picasso, Webs and the Big Bang Theory of Housekeeping
Whenever domestic chores seem too oppressing, I try to remember that there is something cosmic, mystical and meaningful about housekeeping. Bringing order out of domestic chaos is a kind of...
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82How to Write Humor: What's So Funny?
An editor I once worked with asked if I could teach her how to write humor. Until then, I had never thought of humor as being something that is taught. I've always thought that people have a humor gene or...
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77Mariposa: A Town That Survived the Gold Rush
The footprint of this little town was laid out in the California gold-rush era. Unlike other settlements that grew "organically" according to the random placement of campsites, miners shacks and deer...
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71Credit Card Freezes Can Have Chilling Financial Consequences
Overspending with credit cards has apparently become a serious financial problem. I recently read of a woman who puts her cards in a container of water and freezes them, so they will be available only for...
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72Using Garden Gnomes for Self-Defense
I always thought that garden gnomes were useless. Now I am imagining people carrying them around for protection, instead of using pepper spray or other deterrents. If you see a threatening character...
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6450 Hubs and I'm Just Now Getting Warmed Up
50 Hubs and Just Now Getting Warmed Up Dear Fellow Hubbers, When I first joined HubPages in February of this year, I was welcomed warmly by fantastic Hubbers such as KCC Big Country, Rochelle Frank, Dame...
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