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Love That Spud!
Potato chips, potato curls, home fries, French fries, baked potatoes, scalloped potatoes, sliced potatoes, diced potatoes, mashed potatoes, casseroled, as a salad, in a pie, fully stuffed or basically...
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Voila! Soft serve!
We may be nearing the end of August, but the summer isn't over yet. Temperatures are still rising and something cool to the tongue is most refreshing! When it comes to a summer treat, at the top of the...
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Good Times = Happy Days
Today in Music History: August 18, 1979Good times are synonymous with happy days. The ever popular tune 'Happy Days are Here Again' dates back to the Roarin' 20s (1929) when the song was copyrighted by...
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Desire to Live a Dream
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”—David C. McCullough (1933–Present)We should all strive to learn who we are...from whence we...
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Let's go to the first races!
This Day in History: August 19, 1909This day in history is not to be confused with Rev Your Engines on May 30, 1911. That day marked the debut of the Indy 500--a grueling 500-mile race that was an...
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Sound of Soul!
Today in Music History: August 19, 1978 Listen Live!The 70s. These were some Groovy Times! Remembering the 70s brings on memories of the mads, glads and the fads. Even today many music lovers find...
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Decadently Southern
Everyone knows a Southern favorite is pecan pie. It even has its own day, National Pecan Pie Day, which is celebrated on July 12 of each year. [Check out the link for some scrumptious pecan pie...
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Best of My Love
Today in Music History: August 20, 1977There are love songs and then, there are LOVE! songs. At the hint of a certain melody, the emotional sting can bring on thoughts of bliss or trigger times...
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Messages sent around the world & out of this world!
This Day in History: August 20, 1911 and 1977August 20th is a record day in communications with two important messages being sent 66 years apart! The first message circumnavigated the globe but not by...
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Hawaii: Aloha Spirit
This Day in History: August 21, 1959Hawaii, the Aloha State"For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surf is in my ear; I can see its garlanded...
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Any way you slice it!
Yep! Another day to enjoy a special ice cream treat. Of course, with this being the month of August amid sweltering temperatures, ice cream is a delight on any day...in fact, how about every day! You...
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Sounds & Rhythms of Swing
Today in Music History: August 21, 1935Today marks celebration of yet another 'king'. Recently Two Kings Remembered reflected upon one of the greatest sports heroes of American culture, Babe Ruth (King...
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Dirty Dancing in Theaters
This Day in History: August 21, 1987Theatrical release posterA massive, unexpected box-office hit, one of the greatest movies of all times, Dirty Dancing, opens in theaters across the nation....
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Peachy Keen
The benefits of fruit are non-negotiable. They provide nutrients - potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin C, and folate (folic acid) - vital for health and maintenance of the body. Most fruits are naturally...
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Back to School: Are you ready?
Not only are we awakening to a new day but to a new year! Okay, okay, okay, I know it is not Happy New Year 2015. We still have a few months left in 2014. However, it IS the beginning of a new school...
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Relief for Undue Suffering
This Day in History: August 22, 1864 International Red CrossWe are all familiar with the American Red Cross, aka the American National Red Cross, founded in 1881 as a humanitarian organization but the...
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From the Baby Boomers to the Common Era
Today in Music History: August 22Music through the centuries is ever changing...even within each decade styles and rhythms take on the beats of the times with no two decades being the same! For those...
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Rolls, Biscuits, Mac 'n' Cheese
This Day in History: August 23, 1902The first Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking-School CookbookBy 1902, the way Americans prepared food had already changed with the avocation of standard measurements as a...
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Peach Rivalry
There is rivalry when it comes to sports - football vs. baseball & basketball, beverages - Coke vs. Pepsi, pets - dogs vs. cats, sibling rivalry - brothers vs. sisters, rivalry from state to state...
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Music in Full Swing
Today in Music History: August 23As we look at yet another day in music history, we should not be surprised to begin our trip down memory lane with The Beatles. After all Beatlemania swept the country!...
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