Tag: history
member name: Ruth MacGill
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July 12, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
Every once in a while in conversation about the government someone will correct me when I call the USA a democracy. "No", they say, "this country is not a democracy, it is a republic!" . . .
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November 02, 2008 11:42 AM EST --
When you first registered to vote, what caused you to declare yourself a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent or some other party?
I'll bet that, like me, a lot of people chose the party . . .
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April 23, 2009 09:58 PM EDT --
With more than six million people out of work and receiving unemployment benefits, it is no wonder that more and more people are being forced to use their credit cards to help buy groceries . . .
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October 12, 2007 04:24 PM EDT --
Blowing in the Wind at the Horse Camp!
My new computer is set up so that the first page clues me in to what month and day it is, and the local weather conditions. The trouble is it gives me the weather . . .
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February 27, 2008 11:35 AM EST --
Decisions, Decisions!
I'm off to a good start this morning. I took my pills, fed Chatterbox, my sick old female cat, cleaned the cat boxes, filled my 7-day pill boxes - one for morning pills and . . .
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July 06, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
Yesterday I had plenty of time to write an article for Gather, but the topics I thought of all need a lot of research, and my brain refused to work. So I tried TV, but after watching two pretty good old . . .
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July 07, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --
That's what my mother kept telling me back in the depression years when I was a little girl. And she meant it! So I would sit there alone at her oval mahogany dining-room table staring at the two . . .
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June 28, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
It is curious little items like this that make TV channel surfing interesting. Recently I surfed onto a program about the 'Little Ice Age", an event that lowered and fluctuated the temperature . . .
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March 25, 2009 03:01 PM EDT --
There unmistakeable similarities between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the sharp downturn in the economy that we are experiencing today. I would like to compare the two events, and the remedies . . .
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November 28, 2006 07:29 AM EST --
Not Rootless After All
My father bought a farm in southern Connecticut in 1928 when I was six years old. and he sold it in 1941. My childhood was spent on that farm and in retrospect it seems . . .
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June 15, 2008 09:21 PM EDT --
This is not a topic that lends itself to being explained in the 850 words or less, which is what I strive for. But as a subject that concerns a fundamental right of all human beings, it should be considered . . .
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May 16, 2009 03:07 PM EDT --
It was arrowheads turned up by spring plowing back in the 1930s on my father's farm in southern Connecticut that lit the first spark of interest in history for me. I wondered about people who had . . .
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April 22, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
Eighth Grade Final Exam, Salina, Kansas, 1895 – Reposted as a Prelude
Remember when grandparents said that they only had an eighth grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed . . .
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May 04, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
What Does 'Going Back to Basics' Mean to You?
A friend told me he looks upon going back to basics as living within one's means - no charging. That's right of course, but it is only . . .
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December 06, 2006 08:39 PM EST --
Flaggie’s Letter to His Mother After the Great Chicago Fire Oct. 8, 1871
(edited and reposted)
While rummaging in boxes for pictures, I ran across a copy of a letter written in 1871 by . . .
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November 23, 2007 03:20 PM EST --
Why Black Friday?
On TV today, the Friday after Thanksgiving, the talk is all about today being Black Friday. I thought Black Friday was a reference to the Wall Street Crash of ’29. I couldn’t . . .
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December 19, 2007 02:11 PM EST --
They Don't (often) Write Good Songs Like They Used To
I decided to write this article because I remember a couple of ditties from my childhood that became overnight sensations when the main means . . .
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October 09, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
Campaign rhetoric, especially from Republicans, has become, not only vicious, but dangerous. The most violent words are being fomented by the self-described ‘pitbull with lipstick", Republican candidate . . .
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October 25, 2008 06:19 PM EDT --
Are there any lovers of western books and movies left out there in the real world? Or is that something that went out of favor in the sixties like so many other things?
I'm sitting here at my computer . . .
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February 05, 2009 03:46 AM EST --
That is what a necktie looks like to me - a noose. An enemy might grab it and throttle the wearer before he knew he was being attacked.
What practical value does a necktie have other than . . .
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