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Incomplete Embryos in a Metal Womb
Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937. courtesy All Proud Americans “There was a...
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In The Name Of Equal Rights You Must Sleep With This Woman
Okay, it probably was just a bad hair day. We all have them don’t we? We, meaning women who judge other women as soon as they walk out of hearing distance. There’s a game we play as women. We play...
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The Superiority Of American Women 1837–Do You Agree?
Portrait by Rembrandt Peale of Harriet Cany Peale 1840 “If I were asked, now as I am drawing to the closing of this work,in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to...
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Thought this was going to be a book bashing passionate lay historians (re-enactors) so put off reading it for a long time. Instead its a book of pathos relating a displaced American dream, a search...
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Victoria Woodhull not only ran for president, but worked on Wall Street and hung out with Cornelius Vanderbilt. Gives the notion that all Victorian women were trapped a run for its money.
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So You Thought I Only Liked Weak Women? Not So Fast!
Frida Kahlo Pistol Packin’ Mail Carrier Stage Coach Mary Fields–Here’s one woman who could drink, cuss and fight with the best of them while babysitting and building schools for the Indians. I could...
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Winslow Homer’s Thanksgiving Gifts 1865
Thanksgiving Day–Hanging up the Musket/Thanksgiving Day–The Church Porch, from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 23, 1865 http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=37100
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition . . .
And the mashed potatoes with gravy, please. Dear Parents, Don’t let the picture fool you. Outdoor feasts are not quite what they’re cracked up to be, but it’s better than fighting. Happy Thanksgiving....
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In Honor Of Black Friday–Psychopaths
http://listverse.com/2011/02/09/10-evil-psychopaths-you-probably-dont-know/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGcdZlCZPAk&feature=player_embedded
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Incomplete Embryos in a Metal Womb
Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937. courtesy All Proud Americans “There was a...
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The Sexiest Man Alive
“The poet knight-errant of reform” Theodore Tilton Poor Mr. Tilton described in 1871 as “unquestionably the most popular young man in America” was an American newspaper editor and abolitionist whose...
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Real Beggars and Book Peddlers
Hard Times Come Again No More “Sadly, the song proved prophetic for its writer. Stephen Foster took to singing it quite often in his last days, when he was boxed up in the North American Hotel in...
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
I haven’t actually read this one yet, but my husband surprised me with the book and I know I’ll love it since it’s by one of my favorite historians, Oliver Knight, of Life and Manners of the Frontier...
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Would You Adopt This Kid?
If I could be assured of a Little Orphan Annie or an Anne of Green Gables or the kid in the Sandra Bullock movie who plays football I’d be in–I think. I’m a pretty selfish person. I get cranky when I...
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Edwardian Street Style! Fantastic Pics Of Everyday Fashion
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2173872/Edwardian-street-style-Astonishing-amateur-images-capture-fashion-women-London-Paris-century-ago.html
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When Awards Come Too Damned Late
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCq4DLb4upU Unfathomable numbers:
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Forgotten Men and Mules Set To Music
Here’s what happens when you visit a military museum instead of going on a Christmas house tour in December: the usual melancholy of a fallen world. I promise next week will be all sweetness and light!
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Rocking The Galoshes–Upstate Style With Dog
Frigid temps, cool skirts and warm hearts. Happiness begins with a good hair day and a smile. How’s about we go sledding later, boys . . .
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