By Mike on September 20, 2009
september 11th, 2009
Is America Coming Apart?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the Free World, one arrives in the middle of a far more acrimonious national debate right here in [...]
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By Mike on August 30, 2009
Attorney General Eric Holdr recently called Americans as cowards for not talking frankly about race. Personally, while I disagree with Mr. Holder’s position on most issues, I fully agree with him on this. We are all supposed to be ‘color-blind’ in the brave new world, but in reality our actions give the lie to this [...]
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By Mike on August 29, 2009
This was a surprise. I had no idea that the Russian People had donated a special monument to the victims of 9-11.
The Unveiling of a New World Monument
Remembering the Victims of September 11th
and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombings
A Gift from the People of Russia
Vladimir Putin, President
September 11th, 2006 2:30 pm
The Peninsula at Bayonne [...]
Posted in Culture, Inspiration | Tagged 1993 World Trade Center Bombings, Array, Bayonne, Ocean Terminal, Peninsula, Remembering The Victims, Russia, Surprise, Tear Drop, Trade Center Bombings, Unveiling, Vladimir Putin, World Monument, World Trade Center, World Trade Center Bombings |
By Mike on August 16, 2009
What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895…
Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA . It was taken from [...]
Posted in Culture, Interesting Stuff, Reality Check | Tagged Arithmetic, Bushel, Bushels, Capital Letters, Fundamental Rules, Grade Education, Grammar Time, Incidentals, Kansas Usa, Parts Of Speech, Principal Parts Of A Verb, Punctuation Rules, Rules Of Grammar, Salina Journal, Salina Kansas, Salina Ks, Seven Months, Smokey Valley, Time One, Valley Genealogical Society, Wagon Box |
By Mike on August 15, 2009
As a builder I’m interested how people built housing throughout the ages. Some of these buildings are really interesting. In the north east of Iran at the foot of Mount Sahand in Kandovan, the villagers live in cave homes carved out from the volcanic rock.
The age of some houses is more than 700 [...]
Posted in Construction, Culture, Environment, Interesting Stuff | Tagged Earth Buildings, Iran, Old Earth, Sahand, Turkey, Volcanic Rock |
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