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Thursday, June 17, 2010

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THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010 Precaution I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Fr...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman in Space

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010 How many North Americans remember the first woman in space? How many know her name? Not very many, I'd ventur...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Paris, the City of Light

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MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010 "Paris sera toujours Paris!" Paris will always be Paris! I first listened to that old Maurice Chevalier...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Vince Lombardi and winning

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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010 "Winning isn't everything - but wanting to win is." - Vince Lombardi Yes, Sixteeners, you read tha...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Judy Garland poem

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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010 On this day in 1922, a baby girl was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota by the name of Frances Ethel Gumm. You know h...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

On Charles Dickens and Quote from A Tale of Two Cities

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it w...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2010 QUOTE OF THE DAY "No home should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to i...
Monday, June 7, 2010

1968: What a Year!

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MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2010 Hello Sixteeners. This is the story of how I became an incorrigible and unrepentant newspaper junkie. It all started ...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

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SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010 Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby? Can you tell me where he's gone? I thought I saw him walkin' up over...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Why I Support Strict Gun Control

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THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010 QUOTE OF THE DAY "When a person excels at something, he should do something else in which he is a novice bec...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Lou Gehrig's speech

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010 “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest ma...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

John Masefield and Sea-Fever

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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010 I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer h...
Monday, May 31, 2010

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MONDAY, MAY 31, 2010 QUOTE OF THE DAY "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been cau...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010 Hello Sixteeners. This will be my final correspondence from Quebec City as I am going home tomorrow. I will be spen...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Visit to Grosse-Ile

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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010 Bonjour from Quebec City Well, Sixteeners, today I took a boat ride to Grosse-Ile. That's the place where the I...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

More from Quebec City

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010 Hello again from Quebec City It's been unusually hot and humid in the Quebec capital. We had thunderstorms l...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Happy Victoria Day

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MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 Queen Victoria was born on this day in 1819. Her full name was Alexandrina Victoria. It's a good thing she went b...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

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SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 QUOTE OF THE DAY "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Some Events in the Year 1927

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FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2010 On this day in 1927, Charles Lindbergh touched down in Paris after completing the world's first solo nonstop flig...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

John Stuart Mill and free speech

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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010 "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person...