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$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America
$2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America By Katheryn J Edin and Luke Schaefer, 2015 After the Civil War in the 1870s, Aid was created for the Windows of the War. That was about all that was available … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Health, History, Politics/Economics
Tagged $2.00 A Day, 1962, 1964, 1996, 2015, ADC, AFDC, Aid to Families of Dependent Children, Aid To War Widows, Benefits, Bill Clinton, Civil War, David Ellwood, Families, Food Stamps, Impoverished, Katheryn J Edin, Living On Almost Nothing in America, Luke Schaefer, Lyndon Johnson, Medicaid, Mothers, NWRO, Poor, Poor Support, Poverty, Racism, Reduced and Free Lunches, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, Segragation, Single Mothers, SNAP, Social Security, TANIF, The Great Depression, The Great Recession, The Other America, Villain, Welfare Queen, Welfare Support, Welfare to Work, Working Poor
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Las Cruces 2016
Las Cruces Las Cruces is the City of Crosses. It is 3,908 feet above sea level. The Rio Grande provides the Mesilla Valley with water for agriculture. It has an estimated population of 101,643. It is 56% Hispanic or Latino, … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Travel
Tagged 1988, 2011, 2016, Alamagordo, Amarillo, Arizona, Aunts, Car, Cari Vaughn, Cineport, City of Rocks, Civil War, COAS Bookstore, Dad, Dry Creek, Facebook, Farmer's Market, Fazzoli's, Finding Dori, Foothills, Gilkison Family Reunion, Grandkids, Habanero's, Heat, Hot, I-25, I-35, I-40, I-44, I-70, IHOP, Independence Day: Resurgence, Joplin, Kids, Kung Fu Panda, Las Cruces, Mall, McDonalds, Mexican Food, Mexico, Missouri, New Mexico, North, Observatory, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Orange is the New Black, Phoenix, Play Station, Pool, Radium Springs, Red Lobster, Road Trip, Rt. 66, Santa Rosa, Socorro, South, Subway, Summer, Super 8, Swim, Teshor, Texas, Theater, Traffic Jam, Tulsa, Uncles, Used Books, Vacation House, Vaughn, White Sands, Wyndam Gardens
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A Peace Reader
The Peace Reader Joseph Fahey, Richard Armstrong, 1984 Europeans did not conquer North America without Violence. Yet some deliberately sought in these colonial ventures to establish peace practices. That gave new dimensions to the western peace traditions. Customarily Indians viewed … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, History
Tagged A Peace Reader, Alfred Love, American Peace Society, American Peace Works, American Union Against Millitarism, An International Code, Anti-War Activism, AUAM, Boston Reformers, Capt William Ladd, Carnegie, Carnegie Endowment For Peace, Carnegie Hall, Carrie Chapman Catt, Christian Love, Church Peace Union, Civil War, Clarence Steril, COEXIST, Committee on National Legislation, CORE, CPU, David Dudle Field, Delva A Lockwood, Edward Ginnn, Essay Toward the Present and Future of Europe., Europeans, FOR, Hague Conference, Hippies, International Peace Day, John D Rockefeller, Joseph Fahey, Joshua Blanchard-Ezra Heywood, Julia Grace, Julia Ward Howe, League to Enforce Peace, Leo Tolstoy, LEP, Lincoln, London Peace Society, March Against Death, National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War in 1924. League of Nations Non-Partisan Association., National Peace Action Coalition, Native Americans, New England Resilience Society, New York Peace Society, Nixon, NPAC, PCP, Peace Rally, People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, Quakers, Radical Pacifist, Revolutionary War, Richard Armstrong, Russian, Secular Peace, September 21, Societies Des Amis Dela Morale Chrestienne et de la Paix, Truman, TTP, Turn Toward Peace, Universal Peace Association Reform, Vietnam War, Violence, WIII, William Penn, Women's Peace Party, World Allience for Inernational Friendship, World Peace Foundatoin, WPF, WPP, WWI
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High Priestess of Steampunk
High Priestess of Steampunk I read the 2009 book Boneshaker by Cherie Priest in 2012. I was hooked after that. I recently had discovered the genre of Steampunk and read that Priest was one of the best and most popular … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Mythology, Wicca, Writing
Tagged A Fortunate Curse, Abraham Lincoln, Alternative History, Bloodshot, Boneshaker, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Cherie Priest, Civil War, Clockwork Century, Dreadful Skin, Dreadnought, Eden Moore, Fathom, Faulkner, Fiddlehead, Flannery O'Connor, Flesh Not Feathers, Florida, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Gail Carriger, Ganymede, Ghosts, Gods, Hellbent, High Priestess of Steampunk, Machines, Poison, Prospector Pirates, Raylene Pendle, Seatle, Southern Gothic, Steampunk, The Inexplicables, The Lost Hotel, Vampires, Werewolf, Wings of the Kingdom, zombies
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19th Century Women Writers
19th Century Women Writers When I began the project of putting together a syllabus for a class I found that there were a number of excellent anthologies out there that dealt with Nineteenth Century women writers and poets, but … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, History, Literature/Pop Culture, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Writing
Tagged 19th Century, 2002, Abolition, Alice Cary, Ann Plato, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Children, Civil War, Domestic LIfe, E. Pauline Johnso, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Emma Lazarus, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, How To Supress Women's Writing, Jane Johnson Schoolcraft, Joanna Russ, Julia Ward Howe, Karen Kilcup, Lucy Larcom, Lydia Marie Child, Lydia Sigourney, Margaret Fuller, Marriage, Mary Fordham, Mary Mapes Dodge, Native Americans, Queen Lili’Kokalani, Race, Romanticism, Sarah Josepha Hale, Slavery, Transcendental Movement, UNCG, War, Women Writers
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Peter Dial Lykins and the Civil War
Peter Dial Lykins March 4, 2002 From Donald Frisby via Madge Lykins Fackler In the 1860s the United States was being torn apart with disagreements over slavery and states rights. The leaders of the Confederacy were predominately Democrats and the … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Confederacy, Democrat, Donald Frisby, Dudley Curl, Dwight Lee Lykins, Evaline Lykins, Kentucky, Lewis County, Madge Lykins Fackler, Morgan County, Ohio, Peter Dial Lykins, Peterville, Republican, Shelby, Shiloh, Union, William Lykins
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