Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump
The case for Hillary Clinton- because some people are really stupid!An old colleague and I were having breakfast this morning when he looked up at the news (I can’t remember which network …MSNBC, I...
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Neglected Important Artists, No. 32
Geovanni Girolamo SavoldoGeovanni Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia (born c.1480, Brescia, Republic of Venice [Italy]; died c. 1548, Venice?) was a painter of the Brescian school whose...
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Quotes and Political Cartoons about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
An Actual Poster in Vilnius, LithuaniaThe Horse's Ass________________Quotes about Putin by TrumpOct. 2007: Trump said Putin's doing a great job"Look at Putin -- what he's doing with Russia -- I mean,...
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Amazing Photos of Earth From Space
The last time American astronaut Jeff Williams set foot on Earth was March 18, 2015 and he was in space for 534 day. On September 9, 2016, he returned to our planet, having set a new NASArecord for...
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9/11: The Attack on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers
Where Were You Fifteen Years Ago?I was in New York.On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed (400 were police officers and firefighters) in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center...
View ArticleThree Poems by Unknown Authors
Untitled For The HopelessAll my dreams are gone, They took off in the wind.Just like all the songs no one finished.Nobody is kissing, Everyone is sighing, Tired and worn out from another useless...
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News You May Have Missed, No. 73
Political website calls Einstein's physics a ‘liberal conspiracy’The Catholic Church attacked the revolutionary 16th century idea that Earth actually revolves around the sun. But, some conservative...
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The Native Religion of Hawaii
The native religion of the Hawaiian Islands probably originated with Polynesian immigrants who made their way to the archipelago hundreds of years ago. Hawaiian religion is polytheistic, meaning there...
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Facts about Queen Elizabeth I of England
Queen Elizabeth I· Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn.King Henry VIII· Elizabeth was named after both her grandmothers, Elizabeth Howard and Elizabeth...
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Facts About Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning British monarch, turned 90 on April 21, 2016.1. Queen Elisabeth II was born at 2:40 a.m. on April 21, 1926, at 17 Burton St. in Mayfair,...
View ArticleA Statement by Garrison Keillor
September 13, 2916, at 10:49amI saw Hillary once working a rope line for more than an hour, a Secret Service man holding her firmly by the hips as she leaned over the rope and reached into the mass of...
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Torii: The Sacred Bird Gate of Japan
A torii is a gate with two overhead cross bars or lintels. Torii are found in front of almost every shrine in Japan. Their function is to mark the boundary between the sacred world of the shrine and...
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A Most Beautiful Death
An underwater investigation of coral bleaching in the South Pacificby Justin WorllandRichard Vevers has traveled the globe to photograph coral reefs since quitting his advertising job. In 2011 he...
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Jesus’ Circumcision: The Cut That Divided Jews From Christians
The Circumcision of Jesus by BelliniI was puzzled when I first learned about the Christian Feast of the Circumcision. The celebration, which dates to the sixth century or earlier, commemorates the...
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Lesser Known Gods Of Ancient Egypt
Egyptian mythology has a lot of gods. Some of them have loomed large in pop culture and the public imagination: Ra, Apophis, Anubis, Isis, Bast, Osiris, etc. However, some are far more obscure but that...
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Great Art, Great Artist, No.1: Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins (self-portrait)Thomas Eakins (aka: Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins: 1844 - 1916) was an American painter who carried the tradition of 19th-century American Realism to perhaps its highest...
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Neglected Important Artists, No. 33
Valerius de SaedeleerValerius de Saedeleer (August 4,1867 - September 16, 1941) was a Belgian landscape painter whose works are informed by a symbolist and mystic-religious sensitivity and the...
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Two True Penis Stories
Penis Envy: How Size Influences Self-EsteemPenis Envy by Stanley Siegel was published in February, 2012 on PsychologyToday.com and removed two weeks later after public controversy. The center of a...
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A Week of Lies Made by Donald Trump
This Is Just One Week Of Lies, Falsehoods, Exaggerations, Distortions and Whoppers Made By Donald Trumpby Maggie Haberman and Alexander BurnsSept. 24, 2016All politicians bend the truth to fit their...
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Is The Earth Flat?
A Flat Earth model depicting Antarctica as an ice wall surrounding a disc-shaped Earth.Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat. Walking around on the planet's surface, it...
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