Redrawing Borders
Italy and Switzerland have agreed to redraw their border because global warming is melting the Alpine glaciers that mark their respective boundaries. The border had been fixed since 1861.
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Chesterson Quote – Adventure
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” – Chesterson
Read morePatton Quote – Lead me, follow me or get out of my way
“Lead me, follow me or get out of my way!” – Patton
Read morePoem – DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOU (By Ray Gallucci)
DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOU (Based on the article “No Welcome Home” in The History Channel Magazine, January/February 2008, pp. 40-45; and other Internet sources) Ever hear of Sundown Town? Likely not, few tales around. History kept underground Lest embarrassment be found. Born and raised in Illinois, Town of Anna, since a boy? Went […]
Read moreHorace Mann Quote – Ask For Truth
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” – Horace Mann
Read moreCartoon – What About My Needs
John Greenleaf Whittier Quote – It Might Have Been
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier
Read moreCartoon – Pet Squid
Cartoon – Uh Oh
Radiation from medical scans
Patients are getting larger and perhaps even dangerous doses of radiation from the growing number of advanced medical-imaging tests being ordered by doctors, a new study says. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed data from millions of patients who received medical treatment between 1996 and 2010. They found that the number of patients who underwent CT scans […]
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