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July 11, 2010

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum   We were on a historical sites roll, thus I decided to take a detour to Springfield, Illinois, and visit the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, though I was not quite sure it should be grouped with say President Richard Nixon’s or President Lyndon Johnson’s Presidential Library’s....
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Action

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July 8, 2010

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianior One of my first friends in colleges was a woman from Iran.  She was a few years ahead of me, and lived in my dorm.  I do not know why we became friends, but we did.  She looked exotic, but not because she was Iranian, rather because she had a certain...
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Connected

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June 27, 2010
Connected

  “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat.” ~ Sun Tsu ~ The Art of War   Warning This May Kill You When I was young,...
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Archived Post

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June 26, 2010

    “Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all:  the conscientious historian will correct these defects.”   ~ Herodotus ~ (The Father of History)   “A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.”    ~Thomas Jefferson ~  ...
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Favorite Books

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June 26, 2010
Favorite Books

  Lead Like Ike I have just finished Lead Like Ike, Ten business Strategies from the CEO of D-Day, by Geoff Loftus.  I was initially intrigued by the author’s title; the concept of this book was brilliant; the execution, however, was innocuous with writing that is very casual and unfortunately a bit redundant, particularly...
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Public Square

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June 23, 2010
Public Square

    “A man who never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life’s mountaintop experiences.   Only in losing himself does he find himself.” ~ Richard Milhouse Nixon ~   Human Bondage   “The United States was ranked for the first time in the 10th annual Trafficking in...
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Travel

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June 23, 2010

        Museums!               One of my fondest childhood memories involves a trip to a museum in Ohio.  I believe it was the Ohio History Museum, but cannot be sure. http://www.ohiohistory.org/ Nevertheless, what I most remember about that day is that I was able to make butter!  A woman dressed in...
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In the Garden

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June 19, 2010

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Home and Garden       Driving in Cross Creek, Florida, I spotted an orange, on a tree – I had to stop! So much of our citrus, in South Florida was forciably removed, trying to stem some invassive bug or detrimental disease, that it is rare to find what was once...
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Oil

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June 9, 2010

  “When asked why BP did not have containment systems on standby in case of a leak, BP spokesman Robert Wine said there was no reason to think an accident on this scale was likely.” “It’s unprecedented,” he said. “That’s why these caps weren’t there before.” http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/09/bp-changes-oil-containment-time-prediction/             Fifty-one days ago, eleven people woke...
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A View from the Road

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June 7, 2010

  The Everglades Ablaze This shot was taken as we crossed Alligator Alley, the highway which connects the east coast and west coast of southern Florida – and yes, alligators do abound, as does other wildlife, including a vast array of majestic birds, from flamingos to herons, normally a lovely drive.  The fires are...
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