The Healing Art of Reiki, written 1 week ago, Reiki is a Japanese type of spiritual practice also used for stress reduction and relaxation. It is a technique that also helps promote healing either for self or for other people. It is characterized as a practice of "laying of hands".The heal...

Share Memories of a Bygone Time, a Nostalgic Look at Lessons Learned in the Past, Implications for the Present, Hope for the Future

by Andrew Murphy

Tricked into pushing one of the best mowers in the county, written 17 hours ago, The LeaderOctober 4, 1917Meigs County OHSCRAP OF HISTORY From the Interesting and Eventful Life of T.H. Gold of Bedford By invitation the editor of The Leader was a guest Sunday of the venerable Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Gold o...

Victorian Ladies Used Economy in Fashion, written 2 weeks ago, The trend-sensitive Victorians spent much time and effort on their wardrobes, sometimes due to matters of economy, as well as to keep fashionable. Dressing suitably for each occasion was most admired, because of one of the new trends com...

Black and White and Read All Over, written 4 days ago, My first two articles moonlighting as a freelance journalist appear in today's issue of the Lakeville Journal (readable on-line with free registration).  One is a regular feature called Nature Notes that appears below the fold on page 1...

Jack Benny Handprint Hoax!, written 1 week ago, You know that Jack Benny handprint downtown? It's in front of the bank on the corner of Mountain and College. I heard it's not really Benny's handprint. In 1964, Jack was here celebrating Fort Collins 100th anniversary. (It could be that his mother liv...

So You Think You Remember the Fifties?, written 2 weeks ago, George and Robert Leonard, founding members of the Fifties retro group Sha Na Na, examine the scholarly interest in how their singing group helped change the way Americans remembered the decade of the 1950's.In the last few years, an unlik...

New Photo CD: Views That Have Vanished (1960s), written 1 day ago, After four years of development, I am pleased to announce the latest CD produced by BiblePlaces.com/ LifeintheHolyLand.com.  Views That Have Vanished: The Photographs of David Bivin is a collection of never-before-seen photographs t...

US Voter Guide to Arts Positions, written 1 day ago, Over the past week we've seen trading tickers and Presidential campaign tactics sink to new lows and, I have to be honest with you, both are very distracting. Sort of...

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So you want to be a re-enactor?, written 5 days ago, If you are into, or think you might get into, the strange business of historical re-enactment, then travel writer Tim Moore's new book I Believe in Yesterday is for you.Moore time-travelled through 2000 years in the company of re-enactors, from th...

THE TIRE THIEF, written 1 week ago,

Computer game Commander Stalin, written 16 hours ago, Commander Stalin. Here's a little bit from the main article: The game is set in the Soviet Union ruled by Stalin. The player is Stalin. It must organize the state, industrialization and turn it into a major power. This should effectively manage t...

A nod (and wink) to heritage, written 1 week ago, A nod (and wink) to heritage Christopher Hume It may be time to call in the army. From the Royal Canadian Military Institute to the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, heritage buildings across the city are fast being destroyed. The institute's cent...

Mona Lisa the Cold War Tool, written 3 days ago, Vanity Fair has excerpted a new book Mona Lisa in Camelot, by Margaret Leslie Davis. When France agreed in 1962 to lend the Mona Lisa to America, art officials on both shores opposed the idea: The treatment and care of old-master paintings was [Nation...

Thank You For Your Kind Sympathies, written 13 hours ago, Your kind words, sympathies and prayers for me and my husband are much appreciated. It's been 5 days since we buried Riko and I'm trying to get back to my life.Riko's death has been a profound and very intimate loss for me personally.I think ...

Romancing the Queen, written 2 days ago, Where do you go when you want to woo your Queen - why, to the "Glory of England" of course.The "Glory of England" was created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester at a time when he hoped to persuade Elizabeth I to marry him. ".. the ga...

Language and Loss: Some More Thoughts, written 5 days ago, A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog about language and loss. It was inspired by a conversation I have been having with Christina Sanantonio, a writer and blogger living in Central Illinois. She wrote about how difficult it was to talk abou...

Captain Indra Passes Away, written 5 days ago, On October 6, 2008, Captain Indra Rani Jhansi Regiment of INF alias Laxmi Panda had passed away. With her, the tragic aspect of Indian History and history writing have been fixed for its one sided emphasis.Laxmi Panda was denied her dues till the end. T...