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The U.S. A: Is One Of The Most Wicked Nations On Earth
Who is more wicked: the murdering mobster who was raised in a life of crime and hardly knows otherwise, or the life-long Christian man who cheats on his wife? Is a man who was abused as a child and...
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Pictures From The Past, No. 37
The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to...
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The Art of Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinFrench artist Paul Gauguin's bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts helped him achieve broad success in the late 19th century.SynopsisFrench post-Impressionist artist...
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Rarely Used Words: Brio
nounMeaning: vigor, vivacityQuotesAlthough Stopsack had probably never before directed such an undertaking, he performed his duties with brio, skillfully heaping verbal abuse on the manacled inmates -...
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Is Meditation A Religious Practice?
Meditation has become wildly popular in the United States, and the number of people interested in it only continues to grow. There seem to be an endless number of self-help books and blogs focused on...
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Test Your Knowledge, No. 4: Famous Statues
Test Your Knowlege Answers About Statues. The Answers Are At The BottomAnswersThe Little Mermaid, DenmarkChrist the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The...
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Photos of the Week, No. 1
Yacht racing in Saint Tropez, the friendship of a dog and a goose in Turkey, Catalan independence protests in Spain, Comic Con in Manhattan, a black bear in Juneau, tsunami damage in Indonesia, Supreme...
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The Poetry of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of...
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The Worst Countries In Which To Live
North KoreaThe Democratic People's Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, is a country in Eastern Asia. Its capital is Pyongyang. It is currently ruled by the dictator Kim Jong-Un, after...
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Who was the first pope? Where does it say in the Bible the pope exists?
The Roman Catholic Church (and nominally all other churches who hold the apostolic succession, like the Anglicans/Episcopalians, Old Catholics, Orthodox, and so on) call Peter the first Bishop of Rome,...
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Two Poems by Carmine Giordano
At the Tomb of CangrandebyCarmine GiordanoLate in a life of failures, wins and deathsand children grown up and grandthey got a new dog across the streetwhen you might not want to bother againmaybe go...
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The Yasukuni Shrine
HistoryThe origin of Yasukuni Shrine is Shokonsha established at Kudan in Tokyo in the second year of the Meiji era (1869) by the will of the Emperor Meiji. In 1879, it was renamed Yasukuni Shrine.When...
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Pictures From The Past, No. 38
The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to...
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Four Poems By Carmine Giordano
Beefby Carmine GiordanoIn the Jewish museumthe artist Soutine has splayeda hunk of beefbleeding across a canvas.The carcass pulsateswith inside brutality -its splattered abjection horrifiesmake us...
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Rice "Safely Conserved" in a Philippines Gene Bank
Scientists say that more than 100 thousand varieties of rice have been safeguarded for the future.Samples in the world's largest rice gene bank in the Philippines are being used to help farmers...
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