Archive for the ‘Cultures’ Category
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
We flew in from New York to Santiago, Chile two days ago. We spent about five hours walking around Santiago today.
One of the things we immediately noticed here, as we have everywhere we travel in the world, is the difference between the weight of people here and those back in ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
What do you think of the idea that the United States of America is probably destined to disinegrate into clusters of independent states?
What is your opinion of the idea that America is divinely appointed as the world's leader, now and forever?
How about America as the racially pure homeland of descendants ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Steven Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera, was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame today.
He invented the digital camera in 1975.
Steven didn’t work for Nikon or Canon or Matsushita or Sony.
Steven worked for Kodak.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
I was doing some research for a project yesterday and came across the clipping that follows.
It is an excerpt from the March 5, 1776 issue of the Londonderry Journal, the newspaper of the time in what is now Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Several things are interesting about it.
First is the extraordinary age ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Please see the PDF document at: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/in-this-land.pdf
You will need an Adobe PDF document viewer to open this file. You can download a free PDF viewer from Adobe at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
We spent last weekend at my hometown’s big annual event and doing our yearly pilgrimage to the Iowa State Fair with our granddaughter.
While we were at the fair some banners containing information about Iowa’s agricultural output caught my eye.
I started doing some research and came across some interesting and sometimes ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
One summer afternoon, sometime in the mid-80s, we were sitting around the kitchen table at my friend Floyd’s place. It was the 2nd story of a typical Chicago brick three flat in Wrigleyville. The back door was open, the flies were buzzing around the screen door and the rattling, clattering, ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Please see the PDF document at:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/afraid-03.pdf
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
A friend asked me for some thoughts on China based on my research and travels.
Please see the PDF document at:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/china-reflections.pdf
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Just before midnight local time on the night of 27-28 August, 2005, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather buoy #42003, located in the Gulf of Mexico roughly at the intersection of a line directly south of Panama City, Florida and directly west of Naples, Florida, suddenly stopped transmitting. ...
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