The Mayflower, the little ship of the Pilgrims, took over two months to reach New England from Old England. It stayed in the new world over the winter, and departed for England the next year, where disappeared from ships registries, possibly being broken up for lumber and incorporated [...]
Wisdom from China as reported by the AP:
About 14 months ago I wrote on Rev. James Meeks' visit to New Trier High School, including the cute picture above. To me it typifies how Chicago's inner city children start school wide-eyed and serious in both demeanor and dress, and in 12 or 10 [...]
Located deep in the heart of East Germany, before the fall of the Berlin Wall tourists from the West were unable to visit Dresden, the capital of Saxony.
How sweet would it be to return Barack Obama's old seat back to the Republican column? Very. Those of us who well remember what Barack Obama did to claw his way into the US Senate just to use it as a springboard to run for President [...]
Ok, so maybe by now this Obama bowing in Japan has been done to death, but it's worth the comparison with the past once again. Let's face it, plenty of Americans are beyond distressed. It certainly is clear that the Japanese require nothing more than a [...]
Pictured above is the St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, the physical heart and soul of the citizens movement for freedom in East Germany. Here, Johannes Sebastian Bach spent most of his career overseeing the musical life of the church, playing the organ, and composing [...]
In 1961, following years of East German population loss to West Germany equaling perhaps 20% of its population, a wall was erected through Berlin, Germany, sealing the East from the West. Two years later, US President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous speech in Berlin, saying, [...]
Indian Summer, at last! A wonderful day to wake up early, be lazy, think about when (or if) to go to church, enjoy some football or some last-minute yard work, a great day to be alive! Today also is the International Day of Prayer for [...]
God help us. Nancy Pelosi's healthcare bill has passed the Congress. 
Look at this beautiful method of public transport, as different from a CTA bus as day is from night! I came across the picture during a morning project, while searching for whether I could recycle those pesky CD cases. While I couldn't find an answer (no' [...]
I can't think of any scenario that sums up more fully what has happened to our country than the news of the last day. There was President Obama on TV yukking it up with conference attendees before reflecting on an act of domestic terrorism that' [...]
Tuesday night was a night that celebrated the Democratic Party. Don't fall for that stuff you are hearing from a bunch of teabaggers! The Democrats are stronger than ever! Take it from one who knows, and that would be Nancy Pelosi. When the ballots were counted' [...]
How do you feel this morning? On the radio, the weather is 41 and cloudy, but in my heart it's 70 and sunny! I am feeling much better than of late, thank you, dare I say hopeful? After yesterday's election, I decided that a picture [...]
I still haven't really figured out exactly how the subprime meltdown really happened, even though I knew it had something do do with the Cayman Islands, which are not subject to U.S. tax law or regulation. What I didn't know, was that many of the mortgage [...]
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