Ever since watching a PBS special on the Antikythera Mechanism – the first century BCE astronomical calculator that was discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck – I have marveled at how
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Until recently, I knew little about Henry Ford – only that he had designed the Model T automobile and transformed American manufacturing with the assembly line. Henry Ford was one
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Here is an inland state, slightly smaller than the state of Texas, divided by craggy mountains and low valleys, populated by 30 million citizens, comprised of 4 major ethnic groups plus
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There’s nothing like a birthday to bring old memories to the surface.  This is a ‘milestone’ birthday, so an inch of dust had to be blown of these recollections. My
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Review by Barbara Glass It’s election season and there are so many voices talking at once.  Who is speaking the truth?  What is the right direction for us going forward?
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One true story and one not – but certainly could have been. A pair of western novels from Forrest Carter – Gone to Texas and The Vengeance Trail of Josey
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On the morning of December 7, 1963, twenty-two years after Pearl Harbor and exactly two weeks after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, LeRoy Neiman got into a limousine
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  Reviewed by, Judith Helburn 2012 Harvest the bounty of your career. Deborah F Windrum with art by Michele Renee Ledoux. Axiom Action, 2009. ISBN: 139780980109023. Harvest the bounty of
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