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February 11, 2006 03:08 PM EST -- Imagine By Mandi Gordon with the help of memoirs written by Mrs. Danuta Michalak   Imagine something for me.   You wake up everyday safe and warm, your belly full. Your family is around . . . more
January 15, 2006 09:50 PM EST -- John Fawcett's journey began on a freezing night in February 1936, riding the blinds of a crack passenger train. It was to change the 16-year-old's life forever. The son of a prosperous ophthalmologist . . . more
March 09, 2006 04:46 AM EST -- Once in a lifetime! Imagine you are a researcher on a routine house call and you reach under a bed and pull out a box that has been moldering away for more than eighty years. To find the private papers . . . more
Regency Era Names
by Jennifer N.
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October 24, 2007 01:51 AM EDT -- Earlier today I had gone and done something I'd been putting off: Researching Regency Era names for the adults in my novel, as they would have been born in this era and certainly would not have been . . . more
June 09, 2006 07:48 AM EDT -- Besides the women supplying the army, seeing to the sick, and boycotting British goods, some actually entered into the ranks with the soldiers fighting side by side with the men. Now, this was not allowed; . . . more
June 06, 2006 02:58 PM EDT -- The outbreak of the American Revolution spurred on great patriotic actions and sentiments. Who can forget Patrick Henry's stirring words in 1775, "Give me liberty or give me death." Men . . . more
June 07, 2006 06:43 PM EDT -- Within the employment of procuring the needed supplies for the Patriot army, women took it upon themselves to begin a fundraising effort. One of the most successful of these ventures took place in Philadelphia. . . . more
September 28, 2006 05:18 PM EDT -- I was browsing through an old copy of To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson last night and a few lines from Louis Menand's foreword reached out at me, grabbed me by the neck and threw me on the floor. . . . more
April 18, 2006 09:46 AM EDT -- I have provided a full copy of the text below and a full copy of the original small booklet in the images This document provides a wonderful insight into the nature of the market and the concerns of . . . more
March 13, 2006 04:05 AM EST -- John Henry Mills loved a portrait. He took photo's of proud home owners, upstanding businessmen, wild aboriginals, friends, aquaintances, and strangers. He also sold miniature photographic portraits . . . more
May 13, 2007 04:50 PM EDT -- Oh, Mama, I wish we could meet again.  I would tell you over and over how much you influenced me in all the important ways.  I would ask you questions I never dared ask when you were alive.  . . . more
May 30, 2006 08:26 PM EDT -- This is a question I pose to my history classes at the beginning of every year. What is history? I get many responses - most of them to the effect that it is boring facts. Then I surprise them and say . . . more
December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --  This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response. Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
January 16, 2007 02:09 PM EST -- The story of a fugitive slave and bounty hunter is one of betrayal and trust—and the deepest of all emotions, the love a parent has for a child As a writer of non-fiction with a special interest . . . more
January 08, 2008 11:15 AM EST -- Hey gang, I'm happy to report I have two articles published in print mags this month. One is online and one is not. You can see the online one here at Knoxville's CityView Magazine. The other . . . more
April 19, 2006 12:27 AM EDT -- I am enthusiastic about history and hope to enthuse others. I find sights like this stamper mill on the Little Wanderer mine at Mt Britten to be intriguing. But while I am anxious to advertise the presence . . . more
"The Naked Ones"
by Sean Paul Kelley
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July 21, 2006 09:54 PM EDT -- In August of 812 AD the 6th Abbasid Caliph Amin, son of Harun al-Rashid, found himself trapped inside Baghdad, abandoned by his court and besieged by his brother, the soon-to-be-Caliph, Ma'mun. Amin . . . more
March 29, 2007 06:49 PM EDT -- Scenario Seeds are brief ideas that may eventually develop into background for Alternate History  short stories or novels.  Right now they are just ideas.  Ideas can't be copyrighted . . . more
March 17, 2008 02:33 PM EDT --               An author's body of work often shows the progress of the author's life and maturing process. Writing is a very personal . . . more
November 16, 2006 01:59 AM EST -- And the charges of war crimes roll in... ________________________________ New York Times November 15, 2006 12 Detainees Sue Rumsfeld in Germany, Citing Abuse By MARK LANDLER FRANKFURT, Nov. 14 — . . . more
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