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Dale’s Spelling and Word Usage Lesson
Yesterday Schools seem to be moving away from teaching such basic things as spelling and vocabulary, and it’s only going to get worse.
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Bonnie and Clyde — Folk Heroes?
2 days ago There have been at least half a dozen movies, dozens of books, a Broadway show and even songs about Bonnie and Clyde. Merle Haggard did the “Legend of Bonnie & Clyde.” They all mostly glorify the lives of a couple of brutal robbers and killers.
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If You Could, Would You Live On An Island?
3 days ago Of the 6 billion people in the world, 10 percent live on an island. That works out to be about 600 million people, and nearly half of that total, 240 million, live in Indonesia. Indonesia is nothing but islands – 13,667 of them.
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The Real Reason Toronto’s CN Tower Was Built
4 days ago Anybody that’s ever gone to a Toronto Blue Jays game at the Rogers Center can’t help but be distracted by the CN Tower next to it. That’s of course assuming the roof of the Rogers Center is open.
Visible on a clear day or night from Lewiston on this side of the border, the CN Tower is the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere.
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Very Unusual Tornado Record For Iowa
5 days ago Up until the outbreak of tornadoes that tore through five Midwestern states on Sunday and Monday morning, Iowa hadn’t recorded a single tornado in almost a year, and that’s very unusual for a state that averages about 35 a year.
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Watch Out For Utility Bill Scams
2 weeks ago How often do you actually look through your utility bills to verify the charges? You might pay your bill each month and never give it a thought until one day it hits you that your bill is kind of high. Actually very high. Then you compare it with bills from a year ago and it might even be double what you paid before.
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White House By The Numbers
2 weeks ago Too bad George Washington never got to live there. But he was the one who picked out the site and he oversaw construction. The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and eight years later President John Adams and his wife became the first residents of the White House.
Over the years each President has made changes to suit their own tastes.
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Is This The Right Way To The Front Of The Line At Disney?
2 weeks ago This scheme will just make you want to take a shower. It’s a way to get around the rules, and it’s happening at Disney World. It’ll make you mad because most people can't afford it.
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He Wrote Out The Bible By Hand
2 weeks ago It took him four years to do it, sometimes as long as 14 hours in a day, but finally Phillip Patterson completed a project over the weekend that he started in 2009. He wrote out every word of the King James Bible by hand. He finished it by writing the final two lines of the Book of Revelation in front of a crowd of worshippers at St. Peter’s Church in Spencertown, New York near the Massachusetts border. He put down his pen and said “Amen”.
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Airline Fees Out of Control
2 weeks ago Planning to take a trip anywhere this summer? Unless you’ve got a huge bank account you might want to consider driving. Airline fees continue to climb. You might be able to find a nice fare, but boy are you going to be socked with fees.
Just a few weeks ago United changed the fee for changing a discount fare from $150 to $200. American, Delta and U.S. Airways matched it.
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What’s This New-Fangled Thing In The White House?
3 weeks ago It had been invented just the year before and it was on this date in 1877 that President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the White House. It was the latest technology, but nobody really knew what to do with it because not too many people had phones. So it was installed in the telegraph room. And the White House phone number was “1”.
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Mother’s Day Turns 99 This Year
3 weeks ago Mother’s Day is coming up this Sunday. In this country it’s always observed on the second Sunday in May. It was back in the late 1800s when Julia Ward Howe came up with the idea for what she called a “Mother’s Day for Peace” in honor of all mothers. It was mostly a regional thing. Some parts of the country and some states began to adopt it, but it wasn’t until 1908 when Anna Jarvis of Grafton, West Virginia started campaigning to make Mother’s Day a nationally recognized observance.