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¿Stellar Sign Hidden in Plain Sight?

Isn’t it too late to argue? Look at the date on your European and US coins? Comet: NBC news! Friendly Civil lawyer with over-the-counter Mac astronomy software makes centuries of obtuse PhD dissertations obsolete The Star of Bethlehem Documentary 2007 … Continue reading

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OZ teaches Children Asian Languages in Virtual Classes

Children Learn Asian Languages in Virtual Classrooms from prwire.com.au Excerpt below as public service – click link above to full article. (Emphasis below is from this editor.)  Australian children have now the added option to learn Asian languages under the guidance … Continue reading

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艾偉德 Gladys Aylward 147cm

See Bibliography below: The movie, released in 1958, was taken in large part from the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess. One reviewer of the book said that the written material was more action-packed than the movie. The reviewer … Continue reading

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Farmers’ Wisdom

Old Farmer’s Advice: (source unknown but here is one possibility) • Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. • Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. • Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. • A … Continue reading

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PI  Duterte welcomes Japan’s Abe

Manila Bulletin January 14, 2017 (WATCH) How Japan appreciates Davao’s hospitality to Abe Before leaving for Australia, [Japan’s Prime Minister] Abe and his wife Akie visited the Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku, a Japanese-language school in Davao City, where they were welcomed … Continue reading

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Teen Inventor Feted by Forbes 2017

Ann Makosinski re-discovered by Forbes in time for their 2017 award. Previously featured by Google for her 2015 invention of a human powered flashlight. Makosinski invented the Hollow Flashlight, which runs off the heat of the human hand. She also … Continue reading

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Will 日本国 PM Kan quit?

Is Naoto Kan’s Resignation Announcement Real or a Ploy? Yesterday morning, Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced his resignation. Although he didn’t specify the exact date on which the resignation would take place, it was widely believed that he’d be leaving … Continue reading

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2017 – Year of the Rooster

From Japan, Russia, Turkey, and my very own “Furusato” I am RICH with friends. Thank God for 2016 – Can’t wait to see 2017’s surprises !?!? Click each photo for FULL SIZE First Sunrise of 2017 From Photo-Journalist Daisuke Tomiyasu: … Continue reading

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Love is a Fallacy

“Dating Tips” and Male-Female Communication in a humorous intermediate English Reading Comprehension Exercise “Setting” contains teen slang and style references of  the 1930’s – ’40s era in USA The reader may ‘Mouseover’ or click hints for idioms, euphenisms, definitions Love … Continue reading

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Major Minority Pioneers

More links to visit (and suggest more!) Chinese, Tyrus Wong Japanese Sikh Immigrants Jack Daniel’s Mentor Lincoln: Racist or Liberator? Laurence C. Jones Phillip Lazowski …your suggestion…? Sojourner Truth Women Suffrage and Abolition Movements were linked, but … some wanted … Continue reading

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