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9/24/2025 – From the Facebook page Pascagoula River Trails History Else Martin The Three-Chopped Way (1807-1819) This map project on the Roads and Trails of Colonial America started by questioning what routes the immigrant ancestors used during their southern and western migrations. The assumption was that our earliest immigrant ancestors were limited to the waterways […]
Continue ReadingPosted by Bruce McClure, August 20, 2025 here. The Great Rift is the name for a long swath of gaseous clouds, darkening a stretch of the starry band of the Milky Way in our sky. The Milky Way is the edgewise view into our home galaxy. It has an estimated 100 to 400 billion stars. So […]
Continue ReadingAt a college reunion, a group of successful alumni—now doctors, lawyers, business owners—decided to visit their old professor. They chatted about their careers and families, but soon the conversation shifted to life’s pressures, stress, and constant chasing after more. After listening for a while, the professor smiled and said, “Hold on a minute. I’ll go […]
Continue Reading“The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn as an adult is the relentless need to keep going, no matter how shattered I feel inside.” This truth is both raw and universal. Life doesn’t pause when our hearts are heavy, our minds are fractured, or our spirits feel like they’re unraveling. It keeps moving—unrelenting, unapologetic—demanding that […]
Continue ReadingA Pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The Pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again and it won again. The local paper read: PASTOR’S ASS OUT FRONT. The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the Pastor not […]
Continue ReadingWhy did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul! A professor at the university asked his students the following question: – Everything that exists was created by God? One student bravely answered: – Yes, created by God. – Did God create everything? – a professor asked. “Yes, sir,” replied […]
Continue ReadingOne of the cinema’s most powerful scenes occurs in a film many might disregard due to its genre. In “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” a man trying to rebuild his war-shattered life, rides out to face a Comanche chieftain. Josey: You be Ten Bears? Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears. Josey: I’m Josey Wales. Ten Bears: […]
Continue ReadingBy: Steph Whiteside Posted: Aug 16, 2024 / 03:47 PM CDT Paragraphs below extract for personal use from https://www.wkrg.com/news/citizen-scientists-discover-object-soaring-out-of-the-galaxy (NewsNation) — Citizen scientists say they have discovered a fast-moving object on a trajectory to escape the Milky Way and shoot into intergalactic space. The citizen scientists used data from NASA’s WISE telescope to discover the object, which is moving at about […]
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“That’s the way with a cat, you know — any cat; they don’t give a damn for discipline. And they can’t help it, they’re made so. But it ain’t really insubordination, when you come to look at it right and fair — it’s a word that don’t apply to a cat. A cat ain’t ever […]
Continue ReadingIn 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond – and his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You […]
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