I read an article recently in the Tennessee magazine called, “Arrow Dynamics.” It was the story of how Mike Conkle of College Grove, Tennessee, who works as a farrier, has tried to keep the Indigenous people of America alive, by making arrowheads as their ancestors did originally. The process is called “flintknapping,” which is “the […]
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Here is a summary from sparksnotes.com, of a famous story by Charles Dickens that everyone will be familiar with: A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire.
I have worked for the State I live in for eleven years. During that time, I have held various positions. I am currently in the Auditing department and have specifically been conducting audits on Childcare facilities. When we, as auditors, arrive at an establishment, one of the items we are required to ask the Contractor
My husband and I are coffee lovers, and probably drink way more than we should, or maybe it is just me. When he is away from home, I can drink about a pot a day by myself. I even throw some hot tea into the equation every now and then, which I also have an
As an auditor, the admonishment and reminder I get from my supervisor regularly is we can never presume or assume anything. It is extremely easy to assume you have a match when you see two numbers that are the same, however, until you have the evidence to prove this is so, then you must keep
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Though I am not a TV binge watcher, there are times when I do get to relax and watch a show now and then. There was a show called MONK, that aired from 2002 through 2009 that I have caught a couple of episodes of. It starred Tony Shalhoub as the main character Adrian Monk.
There are so many inventions that we use in the 21st century to magnify, project, amplify our voices for speaking, speeches, lectures, singing, and for music and other sounds, you name it. In the 17th century, Athanasuis Kircher and Samuel Morland produced a horn shaped device with the premise that it was for those who
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The institution of marriage was introduced by God. It was given to us as a gift, designed by the Master Himself. The wants, needs, and desires we have as men and women do not come as a surprise to God, because He is the one who created us the way we are. The bottom line
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We lived in a beautiful part of Indiana for almost 20 years where the weather was very predictable, and the four seasons were very apparent each year. When the weather began to change at the end of Autumn and you felt that chill in the air, you could be sure that freezing weather and snow
Fall comes once a year at our house just like yours, but though I am not sure how you react to it, it is a marvel and mysterious miracle to me every year. How beautiful the leaves are when they change colors! How can they be so beautiful when they are in fact beginning to
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