Tag: wimsey collection
member name: Peter Wimsey
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November 07, 2009 08:12 AM EST --
Two of my Gather friends, Dave Sandborg and Kris M., commented on the recent documentary about the National Parks by Director, Ken Burns.
The documentary notes the role of the railroad companies and, . . .
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November 06, 2009 08:34 AM EST --
Birdie Sharp was working in Tionesta, Pa, a borough in Forest County.
Although Tionesta was the county seat, it was a small community on the edge of the large Allegheny National Forest. . . .
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February 18, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
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The Special Investigation Report Team at the Non News Network
New York
The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that Americans are no longer required . . .
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September 10, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
The Wizard has recently acquired, through perilous exertions and an astonishing exercise of wits, an amzing compendium of useful advice and spells.
Not wishing to hoard this wisdom from those . . .
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March 04, 2007 01:16 AM EST --
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Xanthe recently published a brief account of an Ash Wednesday visit to St. Xavier's, and Wurdzgurl recently published a handsome printing of Eliot's "Hollow Men". . . .
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November 05, 2009 06:07 AM EST --
Milford Logan lived in Royal Center, Indiana, a small town in north central Indiana.
Royal Center, Indiana
In July of 1914, he received a postcard from Rachel, who encouraged him to take his medicine . . .
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November 04, 2009 06:23 AM EST --
At the antique flea market in New York several weeks ago, I was offered a packet of postcards and a souvenir folder related to servicemen in World War I.
The postcards were crudely made, stock images . . .
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May 16, 2007 08:45 AM EDT --
David McGill, one of the few gifted Gather News Correspondents and someone who should know better, tagged me to contribute Five Positive Things About Myself.
I just offered Five Positive Things on . . .
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August 27, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
I just read the news about Senator Craig (True American is already delighting the anti-fundamentalists . . .
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September 27, 2007 11:34 PM EDT --
It is distressing to see good articles, charming stories or anecdotes told in a well-crafted manner using superior language skills, . . .
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December 16, 2007 04:52 PM EST --
Dannielle S, recently published a thoughtful article challenging the need to give "things" or "doodads" for Christmas. There are many ways to express love, appreciation, . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:07 AM EST --
They are mostly gone; they are all doomed.
No more buried insults, bon mots, or hidden barbs.
In order to prevent one's articles from being linked to random rubbish, one . . .
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March 15, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
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This article is written in response to a poignant story by Kate C., the remarkable journalist, regional historian, and raconteur who sometimes wears a wedding dress.
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April 18, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
A well-established prinicple in the history of psychology,especially industrial psychology, is called 'The Hawthorne Effect". The term was coined by Henry Landsberger (1955) in a critical . . .
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June 14, 2008 09:26 AM EDT --
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Among the never-used postcards in my collection are a number of linen cards(named for the textured paper that resembles fabric) in very good condition.
These cards include . . .
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June 21, 2008 01:03 PM EDT --
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About eighteen months ago, a lifetime on Gather, I published a poignant vintage photgraph of two young men.
At that time, I posted these haunting images as writing exercises. Readers were . . .
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February 15, 2009 11:57 AM EST --
I am preparing short articles about attractive postcards that interest me.
None of these cards are attached to personalities - but they may be valuable to other folks doing web searches. . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:34 AM EDT --
The city of Dayton, Ohio was founded where three tributaries, Stillwater River, Mad River, and Wolf Creek, empty into the Great Miami River. When the city was laid out in 1795, local Indians . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:07 AM EST --
Most of my postcard stories have related to specific persons and places.
Some postcard companies offered stock images of lovely scenes that were not identified.
I have a number of beautiful . . .
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July 25, 2008 09:14 AM EDT --
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This article was first published in January of 2007.
I removed the article in July of the same year.
I am re-posting it here, with slight editorial revisions, . . .
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