Ancestry has become a pretty mainstream passion, with tens of thousands of people spending their spare time tracing family lines every which way to find out how they ended up where they are now. If you think about it, tracing family lines for all of humanity would reveal the same types ...
When my Dad rode up the elevator in our NYC apartment building, he was often asked if he was my father. I always thought I looked just like him and just like pictures of his mom, except for my nose which came from my mother’s side. The other day my brother showed me a cool new...
Pearl S. Buck used her experience growing up in China with her missionary parents to fuel much of her writing career, which focused on the life of the peasant class in the country. Her most notable work was a family trilogy: "The Good Earth" (1931), "Sons" (1932), and "A House Di...
As I grew up I had friends but none that ever lasted for more than a few years. I was a loner most of the time probably because my interests were rarely the same as most other kids my age. The Kiser family sans me. I would have been an infant when this picture was taken. I ...
time I had driven it in mountains. My training for this experience consisted of two pieces of advice. One, slow down with your gears, not your brakes. Two, the lowest gear you need to shift down to when you’re going up a steep grade is the same gear you should use when you go ...
No, I got an offer to go up to Pennsylvania and do one [graduate studies] but I just didn’t really want to do it. I probably should have. I gotcha. And that was the end of your science career, once you started a family?
However, any family that also brings in unneeded goods for sale will be granted free import on goods valued up to 300 rubles, provided that the family remains in Russia for at least 10 years. Failing which, it be required, upon its departure, to pay the duty both on the incoming and ...
We bought the Family Tree Maker which comes with three months access to Ancestry.com and I am addicted, but then so is Harvey! That’s all we have done lately, last weekend we stayed up till 2am researching. You know on the commercial where they show that little leaf that tells you, ...
The search for life outside of our planet has a new target: Exomoons. Traditionally scientists have looked to other planets for signs of life, but a new study by an astrophysicist from the University of Lincoln, U.K., suggests we may be more successful i