How Crude Oil Is Turned Into Fuels And Other Things Long, long ago, someone figured out how to do this, and it has impacted the world in unimaginable ways ever since. RECENT POSTS TAGS
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Games We Played When I Was A Kid When I was very young, we didn’t have a TV; we had a stand-up radio that sat in the corner of the living room in our one-bedroom house. I don’t remember exactly when we got our first TV, but I am guessing it was in 1951 or
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My Most Romantic Gesture Our Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary Trip Years ago, we would take romantic getaways along the California coast or to the Napa-Sonoma wine country every so often. We also took a few trips to the Hawaiian Islands, but none of them compares to our ten days on the island of
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Trenton, The Night Washington Crossed the Delaware In the winter of 1776, it looked like the battle for independence was doomed. The British army had chased Washington out of New York. To salvage victory from defeat, the American general had one last play to make. He would attack his enemy on Christmas night. The password
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Gabby Hayes, Sans Beard Baby Boomers like me spent many hours before their black and white TVs watching Westerns during our youth, which prompted a previous blog title, “My Heroes Were Cowboys.” One of the best cowboy stars’ favorite sidekicks was Gabby Hayes, whose appearance and voice made us love him. What I had never
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