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I was insructing my Daughter into theymystries of CanningPickels. She is a Graduate of Culinary School along with several other degrees which added nothing to her employabilty. I bought a cheap mandolin to insure consistant thickness of the cukes we were slicing, she proceeded to cut the tip of a finger off, The blood, the blood, after doing first aide I sent her off to the ER. Is this normal? I mean cooks deal with sharp stuff, how many fingers lie at the bottom of our salads?

My Granddaughter recieved her First Communion a couple of weeks ago and is starting to ask Summa Theologicia Questions.. I need a Catholic Camp in the NE to send her to that would be religious and fun, but it must be old line Catholic.

Before the invention of modern contraception, family planning took the form of a chilling practice. Infanticide, the killing of unwanted babies, was common throughout the Roman Empire and other parts of the ancient world, according to a new study. The study, which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explains that "until recently, (infanticide) was a practice that was widely tolerated in human societies around the world. Prior to modern methods of contraception, it was one of the few ways of limiting family size that was both safe for the mother and effective." Based on archaeological...

My Mother, Josephine McGaughey Wilkins Albanese. was killed in an horrific car accident on April 13, 2011. The vehicle was torn in half and according to the Medical Examiner a lot of trauma, I saw the the wreckage shortly after, it was not pretty. My Mother was born in Prince Edward Island , Canada in 1921 and died on the eve of her 90th birth day on the way to her Bridge Club. It was a single car accident a stroke or heart attack is suspected.

Every Sunday or Monday I bake bread for the week, do any of you do the same? I have been kind of curious about this since the outrage about food prices on FR a couple of years ago.

I have been following , as we all have , the events in WI. I find this interestng because a branch of my family helped found the Typographers Union in 1858. We were printers under Licience fron the Crown from about 1640 in Dublin, Anglo-Irish. The Union was organized to obtain tolerable working conditions in print shops, Money was also a factor. I was active in seveal unions, as were many of my relitives, until the AFL-CIO drove us out when Meany was Prez

Silvia Bello, Simon Parfitt and Chris Stringer from the Department of Paleontology, The National History Museum (London, UK) recently reported the discovery of the earliest Ice Age cups made from human skull/p> . Such macabre cups and bowls are known at least since the 5th century BCE, when ancient Greek historian Herodotus portrayed the Scythians as people who drank from the skulls of their enemies, and similar traditions have been described by the ancient Chinese historian Sima Qian in the 1st or 2nd centuries BCE. Still, archaeological evidence of how skull cups were made is extremely rare. Bello, Parfitt and...

The evil white stuff is invading us again and Al Gore is not here, in his position as High Priest to utter incantations and save us from the CO2 generated from $3.00 + GAS required to run our snow blowers.

I recieved a Propane delivery today at $4.04 a gallon. Luckily I am a Paraniod FReeper so the hit was $222 for 55 gallons Before I took precautions I used about 800 gallons a year, Heating and Cooking, this price is insane. Anyother horror stories out there.

How tipsy you'll be when you toast the new year could depend on your sex, education level, and where you live. Anneli Rufus on 15 stats that predict your propensity to imbibe. Related story on The Daily Beast: Beyond Champagne1. Men drink 11.1 percent more than women. In a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services survey, 57.6 percent of males aged 12 and older and 46.5 percent of females aged 12 and older reported having consumed at least one alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days. (Other studies consistently show adult men out-drinking adult women.) The gender gap is...

Because of the General State of the Obamma Economy I agreed to herd my Grandkids, Sons Spawn, two day a week so my daughter in law could pick up some of the slack. My Grandson is a prince among men, or boys, and is not a problem. My Grand Daughter is proving to be a snot, Brat, and is taking after her Bapci, my ex, for being wilfull, pig headed, and Lithuanian. My son who had many of the above attributes when he was a child and needed a strong hand commands Respect for the same reason that he needed...

I just bought a Kindal and and was reconnected to the written word, after our local book store went South and I ain't driving 40 miles when I get a word lust. I have been interested in the overthrow of the Constitution during the FDR Dictatorship, my Grandfathers discription, but Amazon is difficult to search most of what I find is FDR butt lickers. I have read a number of LS type economists but the list is rather short on the site, need help.

Not so very long ago that many archaeologists regarded the Ancestral Puebloan people–or the Anasazi, as researchers once called them–as a rather peaceful, mystical group of astronomers, artists, priests and farmers. They based this idea largely on their observations of modern Puebloan peoples: the Hopi, the Zuni and others who lived in traditional pueblos, such as Taos, and who often lived quiet lives of ritual and spirituality. In the early 90s, some Southwestern archaeologists began questioning this received wisdom. David Wilcox, an archaeologist at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, hypothesized that the rulers of Chaco Canyon, a massive...

Five years ago an archaeological team broke news of a major find that forever changed our views about the history of the Middle East. Researchers from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and the Department of Antiquities in Syria, announced in a press release that they had found the “earliest evidence for large scale organized warfare in the Mesopotamian world.” They had discovered that a city in Syria, named Hamoukar, had been destroyed in a battle that took place ca. 3500 BC by a hostile force. Using slings and clay bullets these troops took over the city, burning...

The polls close in an hour and a half in some Towns, get out and vote.

I was doing a Family History Tour on those of my family that served in the Canadian Army in WW1. My Grand Father admitted that he was drunk when he enlisted when the war broke out, fishing, booze and being 22 had something to do with it. My Great Uncle Leo enlisted in the New Foundland Regiment a bit later but he was Canadian from PEI. New FoundLand was Empire, kind of curious about the process.

A Site to Die For Photograph courtesy National Archaeological Museum of Brüning, Peru. Found in Peru within a chamber used for an ancient human-sacrifice rite called the presentation, this woman was likely an offering to the site, archaelogists say. Announced last week, the 197-foot-long (60-meter-long) sacrificial chamber or passageway at the Huaca Bandera archaeological site belonged to the Moche culture, a pre-Columbian agricultural civilization that flourished on the north coast of Peru from about 100 B.C. to AD 800.

Race Bannon and I were up in the woods trying out his new M1A, nice piece of machinery. Both Race and I wear Bifocals. I have never used a scope but he bought one and he needs some tips on how to get used to the thing. He was brought up on the M 16 when he was in the Crotch and the M1A is a different anamal, all tips are welcombe.

Many archaeologists have argued that women have long motivated cycles of violence and blood feuds throughout history but there has really been no solid archaeological evidence to support this view. Now a relatively new method has been used to work out the origins of the victims tossed into a mass grave of skeletons, and so distinguish one tribe from another, revealing that neighbouring tribes were prepared to kill their male rivals to secure their women some 7000 years ago. .......

The story of the Ark that saved humanity from the flood seems wide spread in Eurasian mythos. In truth some of what has been passed down is far fetched, but may have a basis in history such as the bursting of the Black Sea dam. Because we are living in an age of myths, Global Warming, Spotted Owls, and Obama, maybe we look at the realities behind these stories. As you might guess I think Campbell(Golden Bough?) sucks.