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New president and comments from kids at school

mflower2053 @mflower2053 (3223) • United States 7 Nov 08

Have your kids been getting told things from other kids at school b/c of the new president? I just talked to my aunt and her daughter at a middle school has been hearing things like. Now we are finally free from slavery. Also for...

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Steno notebook?

goldeneagle @goldeneagle (6743) • United States 12 Sep 08

Is anyone familiar with a type of notepad/notebook called a STENO notebook? I had never see these before until I took a job scouting cotton fields after I got out of high school. We used them because the were smaller and easier to...

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For Those That Romanticize The Great Depression, Did You Know?

Angelwhispers @Angelwhispers (8978) • United States 11 Jul 08

The last couple of days I have been reading discussions that actually romanticize, one of the worst periods of our American history. We glorify grand parents who survived this time period and knew how to weather the storm. I have...

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the great depression

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Cotton Share Croppers

Angelwhispers @Angelwhispers (8978) • United States 7 Mar 07

In a field of over growth, in a small forgotton town called Tomato Arkansaw, stands a one room school house that my mother attended untill she finished the 7th grade, her only formal education untill she was in her mid thirties....

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memories of family and childhood

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Dont you think that our cultural values are degrading day by day?

NAVANITA @NAVANITA (41) • India 8 Jan 07

When we look at the pages of history we think of the glorious times we had. The old South, The vedic India, or the cotton fields in georgia, and the traditions they bore, I get nostalgic thinking of that classic era. Even if we do...

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culture and tradition

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