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1 day ago · As a single mother during the Depression she walked miles through the woods to do people’s laundry for fifty cents. To help feed her four children she took up squirrel hunting, carrying the overalls she wore under her arm until she got out of sight in the woods. Besides being a hunter, she was a gatherer of wild fruits and herbs of all kinds ...
3 days ago · On Feb. 26, 1927, he submitted his final statuette titled, Challenging. MacNeil’s pioneer woman was cast in bronze at the American Art Foundry located in Queens, New York. He had draped his nude figure with appropriate western women’s period fashion, remaining barefoot and with a firm grip on the axe.
2 days ago · “We walked into our first banquet at this fancy, exclusive restaurant – there must have been 400 to 500 people in there – and when we walked through the door, you could have heard a pin drop. Everyone stopped what they were doing and just stared at us. We looked around and saw an empty table and found a seat.”
For the most interesting things on the internet. Cross section of two human males - one obese and the other fit. I used to protect and polish that display! I worked security for the Body Worlds show and we had the delightful job of going around and spraying/wiping all the display cabinets at the end of the night.
1 day ago · Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
5 days ago · Bake for 11 min. Transfer the baked shells to a wire rack to cool. Using a mixer, whip together 1/2 cup of butter, until fluffy. Add mint extract and 2 tablespoons milk. With the mixer on low, gradually add powdered sugar. Beat until fluffy. Fold 1/4 cup crushed candy canes into the filling.
2 days ago · A ROAD winds round the hill above our heads; another winds round the hill below our feet; between is a shelf jutting out. The principal object on the shelf is the house, but it also supports the pencil-cedar, and the garden sits on it, and at the back the servants’ quarters and stables just don’t slip off; so that when Tiglath-Pileser walks about it with his hands in his pockets it looks a ...
