November 30: Actor Paul Walker ("Fast & Furious" movies) dies in a fiery car crash in the Valencia Industrial Center. December 16: Placerita oil field (Confusion Hill) owner Berry Petroleum Co. merges into Houston-based LINN Energy and affiliate LinnCo. 2014 January 7: Embattled 4-term L...
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and it wasn’t germane to the essence of the story I wanted to tell. I also decided not to use the family’s real surname, but I did use many actual first names and some that were similar, so that I wouldn’t confuse myself. This was a huge family so there are ...
from the people who went before us and I’m the recipient of much of this bounty. I’m not even sure what all I’ve been entrusted with, so am taking stock. One of my favorite finds is a scrapbook, circa 1902, that belonged to my great Aunt Emily, whom I know of but never met...
” she said, pulling the car aside. We’d visited her the day before at her office in Farmingville. As it turned out, Barbara had grown up on Shore Road. She took us to a place where we could see the manor; as it was barely visible in the summer’s foliage, we wouldn’t have ...
lotus flower, these symbols each have their own unique story—just like the love stories that they inspire and represent. Let’s look at some other symbols that stand tall in place of passion, affection, and true love and how they connect with our collective desires for love, joy, and ...
Mrs. McKinley, for example, was to take a tablespoonful of "Wine of Phospho-Glycerite of Lime" with meals. Fascinating and utterly unique - we have never seen a similar presidential/first lady item before, let alone two of them for the first couple. Archivally framed with a beautiful ...
It should be noted though that 20 years before Lemke, Berlin sexologist and psychotherapist Albert Moll (1862–1939) had rejected hormonal explanations of homosexuality on the basis of the diversity of and great differences in homosexual feelings, lifestyle and behavior. It was for that reason ...
His co-workers gave him the moniker“Red Diver Dick”.InOctober 1877, he got captured by aband of Pima Indianswhile rounding up stray cattle in Arizona. Indians spared his life, respecting his heritage. In his autobiography, he wrote that he almost gotmarried to the chief’s daughter.Eventu...