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Author :: Matthew Sirpis  |
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| Article Title :: A Brief Biography of Rene Boissevain the Agate Adventurer and Creator of The Crystal Caves Museum |
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| In 1964 myself (René), Nelleke my wife, and our daughter Iefje emigrated from Holland to Australia. I was 29 years old and Nelleke a few years younger.We choose to live in the tropics of Far Northern Australia, a place unknown to many people around the world.Cold weather and a longing for adventure was the main reason to leave The Netherlands. We found a job in the tobacco fields. During that time we met a guy from Macedonia and he introduced us to a place called Agate Creek. I had never even heard the word agates before. This was my first introduction to the world of semi precious stones and in particular agates.In later years, 1965 to 1968, we went to Agate Creek w (read full article) |
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Author :: Jennifer Gibbs |
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| Article Title :: From Dynasty to Destiny: Ten Celebrated Inventions of Ancient China |
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| In the last two centuries, new cultural discoveries have nearly rewritten history. It’s been an exciting time, full of adventure and surprises. Around every corner there are new responses to questions we had already imagined answered. And of these breakthroughs, none shines as brightly as the impact of ancient Chinese inventions on modern life. As we explore ten of the greatest inventions and innovations of Ancient China, you may be surprised at their influence on recent technology.1. Paper. Paper, as we know it, was invented in China around the year 105. After seeing earlier attempts made from silk, bamboo sticks and animal skins, Cai Lun came up with his own idea. After mixi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Humanities Articles |
Author :: Don Bracken |
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| Article Title :: Elvis Presley, Lifting Off |
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| He seems to live forever. A network television movie about his life is scheduled for 2005.Three years ago,in 2002, the month of August was set aside for him. He was everywhere, as if he never died twenty-five years earlier. The old records reappeared as freshly minted CD’s, he was seen shaking his hips on TV “news” clips and one CBS news piece revealed that an astounding forty two percent of the US population consider themselves to be Elvis Presley fans. His short life was looked at anew, re-examined and pontificated upon. Every day was accounted for, except that one day in January 1956 when he shot to stardom. Who could have known what would happen on that day? The biographers coul (read full article) |
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| Category :: Humanities Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Ancient Indian Civilizations - Where Did They All Go? |
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| In 1350 AD we were still quite a few centuries from settling at Plymouth. I have been luckily in that I have found adequate records back to 1200s in my family tree. But this is the time of the end of the inhabitants and Civilization of the Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellers. Some stayed back we suppose, they are the Anastasi Indians. What else was going on in the world during this time? Well as the Indians were leaving there was another civilization flourishing in Thailand and the Thais people had built many city-states.http://galileo.gits.net.th/www.thaimain.org/en/intro/history.html .Of course in Italy and Europe they were dealing with the Bubonic Plague. Droughts can cause plagues (read full article) |
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Author :: Youra Timoshenko |
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| Article Title :: How To Get Rich and Die Quick! |
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| It is funny how web site promotion can suddently plunge you into literary exploits...I am currently at work, my bosses left for the meeting so I can relax a little and perhaps even write a short article for this ezine.It dawned on me that as close as we are in everyday life, we really are isolated from each other by mundane tasks and repetitive procedures we are bound to engage in. Although, why should we even care about these issues as we usually think about making money and living our lives?Naturally, we are social being and cannot escape intangible social obligations and needs, yet we also guard our privacy with zeal. Now, as write these lines, another, more import (read full article) |
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Author :: Ernesto Apomayta |
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| Article Title :: Peruvian Artist Shares Why Preservation of Culture and Rituals Sacred To His Art |
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| My artistic endeavor have led me towards a personal sense of mission, because the visual arts are more than a passive representation of the life style and culture of the Incas, Aztecs, Mayas and Chinese of the Asian-pacific.Through my work, I seek to preserve and stimulate an alternative vision to the modern industrialized twenty-first Century. Western culture has moved away from the serene life style that my ancestors lived. It is more important to recognize that we indigenous hold on to a distinct culture with other values other ways of seeking the world.I am forty-nine years old and was born in the Peruvian altiplano of Puno. The traditional indigenous highlands of the An (read full article) |
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| Category :: Humanities Articles |
Author :: Stephen Ainsah-Mensah |
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| Article Title :: A Defense of Cultural Intelligence |
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| When humans set off to address fundamental issues about what and how life is to be, two important questions exercise the conscience though a middle-ground question could arise from these two. One question is: 'how do we make humans the measure of all things for now and for things that are to come?' The other question is: 'how do we make nature the measure of all things for now and for things that are to come?'The first question submits the direction of nature to the boundless will and self-determination of humans. The second question submits the drift of human development to the divine instructions of nature. The first question leads to an individualized culture - a state of affa (read full article) |
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| Category :: Humanities Articles |
Author :: Judy Arline Puckett |
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| Article Title :: American Citizenship |
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| Can We Pass The Test?American CitizenshipI'm the daughter of an American soldier and with that comes pride of my American heritage, and love and pride for our country. I have thought of myself as being a patriot, which I am. But I have found out to my dismay, that we as Americans have not gone to any length to know enough about our country.I feel very lucky that I was born here.Online there is a citizenship test, similar to the test that those from other countries are required to take. I took the test and made a score of 6 out of a possible 11. I regarded that as a low score but the test said not that bad.I was disappointed in myself, a daughter of a ww2 (read full article) |
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| Category :: Humanities Articles |
Author :: Tushar Jain |
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| Article Title :: Unguided Men |
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| Humanity - the sole endeavor of sanctity in every man, the moribund symphony serenading in all perceptions, the extinct deference suggestive of life—humanity. Something already sold to that trait of the individual defined as war.War is never introduced but is in the presence of man as in birth, it is left to man to either seek its vice or pertain himself to the fountainhead of life – humanity. Self is the greatest, yet the most malicious proposition of existence introduced to man. We are men - of flesh, blood and avarice. The flesh is of self, the blood is for self and the voracious avarice is self. And just to promote this very self – the audacious euthanasia steps forth ont (read full article) |
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Author :: Anna Ellington |
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| Article Title :: Accurate Psychic Advice |
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| Psychic readings can be an invaluable tool for obtaining answers to your most confusing questions. A psychic reading can help you gain insight regarding your love life, family, career, finances and more!We invite you to select a psychic and begin your personal and confidential psychic reading today!Quality Psychic AdvisorsUnlike most other "live psychic advice" web sites, all psychic readers obtained by Accurate Psychic Advice have been hand selected based on their area of psychic reading expertise!Accurate Psychic Advice also provides you with personal profiles of each psychic reader. These profiles will help you to obtain the most accurate psychic readings. (read full article) |
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