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The Discovery of Oil in the US Native Americans had known of the oil in western Pennsylvania, and had made some use of it for many years before the mid-19th century. Early European explorers noted seeps of oil and natural gas in western Pennsylvania and New York. Interest grew substantially in the mid-1850s as scientists …

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Reinheitsgebot: Bavarian Beer Laws There are more than 8200 craft breweries in the United States. But it is a strange irony of the history of beer that, in sixteenth century Bavaria, the flavorful adulterations of brew common in craft brews were banned in a proclamation that still affects the industry today. The 1516 Reinheitsgebot, or …

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Hair John Oliver discusses the importance of Black hair, the ways it can be a target of discrimination, and some ideas to address that. TMC for ek hornbeck

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Mother shares unique maternal bond with gorilla This gorilla is Kiki. She recently had a baby named Pablo. My wife, Emmelina, also had a baby 5 weeks previous to this video. Kiki had brought her baby over to us and shared a connection with my wife and our baby boy Canyon. TMC for ek hornbeck

Happy Mother’s Day

A DocuDharma tradition now on The Stars Hollow Gazette. I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she’s never met a brand name she didn’t like whereas I’m perfectly content to buy generic. I thank her among many …

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SCTV – I Was a Teenage Communist SCTV Network BobbyK for ek hornbeck

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Clay Jones at GoComics.com TMC for ek hornbeck

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Now Or Never: Yorktown Campaign of 1781 George Washington’s Continental Army has fought for five long years to drive the British from American soil. Now, with the aid of French land and naval forces, that time may be near. Washington and his allies have surrounded the British at Yorktown, Virginia. The dream of American independence …

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Orphan Trains The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating about 250,000 children. The co-founders of the Orphan Train movement claimed that these …

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Second Amendment Score Card TMC for ek hornbeck

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America Unearthed: Stonehenge in New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge is a privately-owned tourist attraction and archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly 30 acres (12 hectares) within the town of Salem, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is open to the public for a fee as part …

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Covid Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) John Oliver explains why some people don’t want to get the Covid-19 vaccine and how they might be reassured. (Even you, Mike in Baltimore.) TMC for ek hornbeck

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