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75Atlas Foundation Acts to Restore Yonkers Boxer’s Dignity
Shamus O'Brien, touted as "Yonkers Favorite" when the popular lightweight Irish boxer battled numerous champions and served as a trial horse for up-and-coming youngsters, will finally have his dignity restored. He died in 1959 without as much as a grave marker. The Atlas Foundation is acting now to restore his long lost dignity.
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74Teaching My Child About Race
"Dad" I said frantically, "Am I in an inter-racial relationship?" I was so unaware of race or racial differences it had never even occured to me that my future husband was not considered to be of the same race that I was. But my fathers answer...
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75My MinPin has IVDD - Part 2
We thought our Min Pin had Intervertebral Disk disease. After seeing a Veterinary Neurologist we found out different. Read about our experience and the final diagnosis.
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75Naked Emperor: Trolleys in Yonkers
"Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley ..." The words of that old familiar song bring memories, to me, of the wartime 1940s in Yonkers, N.Y. That city, more hilly than the "city by the bay," boasted trolley cars until the early '50s when buses took their place (all in one day!)
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70Those Lessons They Never Taught Us in School
This story relates how a big brother who didn't make it to high school or college -- through his own innate common sense -- taught his little brother, who graduated from high school and college, more than any teacher or professor he ever had.
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73Preserve Our U.S. Constitution
Why is it that so many of us feel that the rights and responsibilities we inherited from our forefathers may be, despite our reverence for the U.S. Constitution, in serious jeopardy?
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73Irish Boxer's Dignity Restored in Yonkers After Half a Century
Tombstone for Michael J. Hogan AKA Shamus O'Brien donated by Artists Memorial Monuments through the Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Foundation and Ring 8 Veterans Boxers Association of New York.. It was installed recently in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Yonkers....
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69History Often Depends On Who Writes It
I was just a boy during World War II, but I have many memories, both good and bad. It's been said that the history of the world will be written by the victors; if the Axis powers had won that war, who knows what the history books would be saying now?
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69Some History Behind Delaware's Little Brown Jug and Jugette
Take a look at some of the history of the Little Brown Jug and the Jugette annually held at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio. This year's Jug and Jugette winners are featured.
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68How to Prevent Plantar Fasciitis..Westchester County Foot Pain Specialist
With the long winter now at our rear view and the warm weather approaching, many returning and novice exercisers are resolving to get in shape by beginning a walking program. While the benefits of such a regimen are numerous, it is prudent to be...
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