Aftermath The weather turned violent on April 26, 1717, in the frigid waters off Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The nor’easter forced the vessel close to the shoals of Cape Cod. Eventually she …
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“We greet you and we thank you” is spelled out on a drawing of a vine growing from an amphora. The drawing was itself on the face of a card …
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The Cunard liner Lusitania made her maiden voyage on September 7, 1907. She was 787 feet long and weighed 31,550 tons. Dubbed the Greyhound of the Atlantic, Lusitania had set …
Magna est veritas et praevalebit—Truth is great and will prevail. “If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”—Marcus Aurelius “Be …
Herschel Walker, currently the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, was born on March 3, 1962, in Augusta, Georgia. Walker grew up in Wrightsville, a small town of around …
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I met a Speech and Language Pathologist when I was working in Lake County, CA sometimes the state’s poorest. For the sake of privacy and anonymity, let’s call her Joan. …
Temple Grandin overcame severe autism to have a successful career as a designer of livestock equipment. She was born on 29 August, 1947, at 2:30 p.m. in Boston, Massachusetts. Grandin …
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The writer H.L. Mencken coined the term Bible Belt in 1925 during the Scopes trial.* He used it to describe those in the southern part of the nation who believed …
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Picking a Career Getting Ahead Finding the Right One “Something to do and someone to love, such are the great essentials of life.”–Addison A lot of college age young adults …
