Tag Archives: history
Amsterdam’s Torture Museum
I’ve never been here, but the description of this museum reminds me a LOT of a museum I visited a couple of years ago in Edinburgh, Scotland. They had an EXCELLENT display of various torture devices used through the years, … Continue reading
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Tagged amsterdam, com, description, edinburgh scotland, Gadling, history, Museum, torture devices, torture museum
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medicine and history
Last night my family and I watched a documentary about Woodrow Wilson. He is a surprisingly fascinating individual, but naturally a big part of the documentary was about World War I and the role of the US (and Woodrow Wilson) … Continue reading
world war ii on facebook
How unbelievably funny is this? (I guess you have to be a history person to get it!)
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Tagged Facebook, history, person, war, World, world war ii
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lazy nights
Lazy is how I feel. I’m sitting around, writing and watching documentaries from the History Channel on DVD. Dreaming of a vacation to just about anywhere… north to Buffalo, NY, south to Atlanta, GA, or just a hop-skip over to … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Baltic Sea, Buffalo, buffalo ny, catastrophies, Channel, crazy day, family, history, Lazy, NY, Scandinavia, st louis mo, St. Louis, vacation
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8-7 today in history and mailboxes
A fascinating “today in history”: On this day in 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti. Heyerdahl wanted to prove … Continue reading
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Tagged balsa, Day, fragile existence, history, mail boxes, ocean, ocean currents, Peru, South Americans, Tahiti, Thor Heyerdahl, Today, tuamotu archipelago, Wood
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around the internet, february 09
This is a website cataloging all kinds of Web 2.0 services. A quick congrats to Stump, the winner of the Westminster Dog Show. Stump, a Sussex Spaniel, is ten years old and is the oldest dog ever to win the … Continue reading
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Men are respectable only as they respect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged history, learning, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. -Theodore Roosevelt
Tagged history, learning, randoms, Theodore Roosevelt
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The amazing Iditerod relay
I am watching a show in the weather channel about the amazing dog teams who got a lifesaving package of diptherua serum th Nome, Alaska in 1925. It’s an amazing story- men and dogs who risked their lives to save … Continue reading
fort osage recap
Here’s a bunch of photos from our visit to Fort Osage yesterday. These were taken on my camera (not my phone). Since my phone battery was dead, I used the camera. (in fact, I need to do that more! Some … Continue reading
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Tagged Fort Osage, history, learning, Missouri, Missouri river, William Clark
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