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- Four Reasons I Love Sundays
- Walls and Bridges
- APOCALYPSE
- Diet for Christians
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Space Duct Tape and the Search for Ron
- INTERVIEW WITH THE OLD WEST'S ALISON BRUCE
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Morgen Bailey returns with some invaluable advice about writing and writing essentials. Welcome back, Morgen. Your posts are always captiva...
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A book accepted by Mockingbird Lane Press Oh, yes, lol, when I got home on Saturday night I found an email from Regina at Mockingbird...
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Use your Memorial Day holiday to ponder on this, kids. Do YOU make decisions, think, act? Or is it...doo doo doo doo...the ZOMBIE WITHIN ? ...
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A bee or wasp sting can be fatal to someone who's allergic to it. When I was a child I was stung by honeybees but my mother put a paste ...
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Evil wasp General, good evening. Bzzzt ZAP Don't waste my time, puny writer. How did you acquire such a fine physique, General? ...
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Morgen Bailey biography Based in Northamptonshire, England, Morgen Bailey (“Morgen with an E”) is a prolific blogger, podcaste...
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What happened to the frog's car when his parking meter expired? It got toad!! What do you call a frog that crosses the road, jumps...
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This book is called The Insanity Machine because in 1978 Kenna McKinnon chatted with another inmate in the old 5C forensic psychiatr...
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To use or not to use the Oxford comma (serial comma)? It depends. In Canada, don't use it. In the USA, use it. But it's not that s...
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Ray Bradbury is dead at the age of 91. Dead on Wednesday, June 6, 2012; I don't know the cause other than his heart gave out. He refused...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
The Grapes of Wrath
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The American Civil War. Does anyone really win a civil war?
See my infographic a few days ago. Sobering and sad.
More lives lost than any other American war, including WWII, the Vietnam war, the Korean War, Iraq/Afghanistan, and of course, 1812, when the British set fire to the White House! The latter isn't even mentioned in most histories, at least not accurately.
The War of 1812
We in Canada and Europe refer to Napoleon's siege of Moscow as the War of 1812.The Russians retreated and burned their villages, livestock, and gardens behind them, leaving nothing for Napoleon and his soldiers to live on during the harsh winter that followed.
Very smart and risky, winner takes all. It's said the brutal Russian winter defeated Napoleon.
The Confederates and the Union
What, then, of the Confederates and the Union? Brother fighting brother...Virgil Caine is my name...
Those American history buffs and native Americans know much more of American history than I, but two Canadian authors, Alison Bruce and Kat Flannery, have brought it alive.
Read about a fictional Civil War Christmas love story here:
War is hell.
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I highly recommend Ken Burns' TV series "The Civil War" if you want a fascinating, in depth and personal look into this troublesome time in the United States.
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