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Traveling with Cabeza de Vaca: Introduction
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer who lived from 1488 to 1558, or thereabouts. He was a very interesting man, and unlike some other explorers, he was not a conqueror, so much as...
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Article Directories: No Rules, Many Rules or Few Rules?
[This article was originally published on Excerptz on July 29, 2011, but I have been notified that the site is closing down, so I am republishing here.] A giant PandaPhoto Credit: Wikimedia Commons On...
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An interesting blog about punctuation marks and their histories ……
Here is an exceedingly interesting blog about marks of punctuation and their often odd histories, where you are all but guaranteed to learn far more about the subject than you could ever have imagined...
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Greetings and Salutations! Is violence the answer? is a new pub about violent video games, television shows and movies. My thesis is that an excessive amount of intake of violence is unhealthy,...
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Buy Reach Gentle Gum Care Woven Dental Floss Online
Sometimes we become accustomed to finding a personal hygiene product at our local drugstore or grocery store. Then one day it disappears. Did they stop making it, we wonder? Or has this particular...
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Meeting People Halfway: Detours in Communication
Most people agree that if you want to communicate with someone else, you have to meet him halfway. It’s all about give and take, and we have to be willing to do both. But what many people have never...
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Contact Lenses
Tired of wearing glasses? Try wearing contact lenses. A contact lens is a thin lens you place on the surface of the eye. Contacts can be worn to correct vision or make your eyes look a different...
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Protecting Your Hair
Many people have a hard time protecting their hair from getting dry and having lots of split ends. These are some tips on how to protect your from getting damaged. Your hair may have a lot of split...
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Removing Makeup
Sometimes if you’re wearing waterproof makeup, it can be hard to take off. If you get the right makeup remover, it’ll be a piece of cake. Never sleep in your makeup, it clogs pores and your skin needs...
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Making Your Room Look and Smell Nice
If you have a messy room, but you want to make it look and smell nice, you can start by cleaning out things you don’t need to make room. Once you’ve cleaned and organized things out, it’s time to...
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Mayapples
Have you ever seen a mayapple blossom? Mayapple or Podophyllum They are shy, and hide about halfway down the stem of the plant, their faces turned away from prying eyes. Mayapples grow in colonies from...
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Belly Lying
When you were born, there were no rules about how a baby was supposed to be positioned in the crib. Sometimes you slept on your belly. Sometimes you slept on your back. There was usually a blanket...
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Livestream with Julia Hanna and Guest Dr. Paul Connett
On May 4, 2018, Julia Hanna and Aya Katz spoke with Dr. Paul Connett about the effects of water fluoridation on the health of human populations exposed to this practice. Dr. Paul Connett is a...
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Live Interview with Julia Hanna and Guest Kathy Freeze
On May 18, 2018 Julia Hanna and Aya Katz spoke with guest Kathy Freeze about the novel she is writing, her purple martin colony, her nature photography, trips to Yellowstone Park, mentoring of other...
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Five Generations of Handwriting Samples
Because I inherited the correspondence that belonged to my grandmother Klara Goldstoff Katz at the time of her death, the five generations will be counting from her mother, Mirla Goldstoff all the way...
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A Review of “The King’s Letters”, a Movie About Hangul
By metalslick – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63996191 “The King’s Letters” (나랏말싸미) is a historical Korean drama released in July of 2019. Set in Joseon...
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An Interview with Professor Esmat Babaii from Iran
Last night Julia Hanna and I had the great privilege and pleasure of interviewing Esmat Babaii, an Iranian academician and author. Some of the topics that we discussed include: The effect of social...
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Misconceptions About Religion
The greatest misconception that one person can have about another person’s religion is that the other person is somehow less informed or not as intelligent or more primitive to be taken in by the...
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The Life of Dr. David Meier Beker
Dr. David Meier Beker was born April 25, 1913 in Poland. He was the son of Samuel and Reisie Beker. I happen to have some documents pertaining to him, because he was a first cousin of my maternal...
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Kate Gladstone on the Writing Systems of Africa
On November 3, 2023, handwriting expert Kate Gladstone gave a presentation on the writing systems of Africa. The livestream is part of the “Interviews with Aya Katz” podcast. Kate Gladstone on the Aya...
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