Tag: history
member name: Rory M.
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November 26, 2007 02:35 AM EST --
WARNING: This article contains detailed information about hockey, which Americans may not relate to very well. All will be explained, so no expertise in hockey is actually required to read . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . . more
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October 09, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
(If you are a person who believes that every word in the Bible is literal truth and your mind is not open to other points of view or interpretations, then it is perhaps best if you do not read any further . . . more
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . . more
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . . more
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . . more
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July 14, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning with little memory of what had come before. Let's say you still knew who you were, how to go about most of your daily tasks, but could recall almost nothing . . . more
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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November 12, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Given the title of this piece, it could be a charming little story about forest creatures, about a gentle but eerie sounding Loon who lived on a quiet lake and magnificent Buck , or Stag, who came . . . more
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May 24, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
Often problems arise in society that are treated as though they came out of nowhere , the public and the politicians reacting as though the problem could not have been foreseen or forestalled. . . . more
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May 24, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
In this fifth installment of my series on words that have had special meaning to me in my life (links to the first four articles are at the bottom) , I would like to focus on a very few words that were . . . more
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November 22, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
I am not in the habit of reading books authored by American political figures. Though I have read two of former President Jimmy Carter's books, I am not drawn to partisan writings on politics in . . . more
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May 19, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
This is the third article in the series I have begun to pay homage to the words of other writers that have meant so much to me through my life. The first two articles can be found here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977347468&nav=MyGather . . . more
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March 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
There is a tendency to compare the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam, especially as opposition to the war continues to rise as it did during the waning years of the Vietnam war.
The question must be . . . more
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May 28, 2008 01:09 AM EDT --
The Baha'i Faith began in 1863 when the founder, who took the name of Baha'u'llah ( the Glory of God ) when he announced his ministry, declared himself the latest in a long series of prophets . . . more
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