Ghost Hunting Surveyor (1)
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The Iowa Surveyor's Blog (2)
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An article posted online on the Des Moines Register's website today is about a Northeast Iowa land surveyor, James Krivachek, who also founded a group (Researching Iowa's Paranormal, R.I.P.) that tries to detect and communicate with ghosts.Click here to read the article.Maybe he can get in touch with some of those dead old surveyors and really follow in their footsteps.
Why's Bobby Jindal in Iowa? (2)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal heads to the state that kicks off the presidential primary season. (CNN) — Bobby Jindal's in Iowa today. Louisiana's Governor will make a stop in Cedar Rapids to tour some of the damage from devastating floods earlier this year. He'll also participate in a fundraiser with some of the victims from the [...]
Who says there are no good jobs left in journalism? (3)
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Here is exciting news. The (state-run) China Daily may be opening a US edition!! Clues here, with thanks to Michele Travierso. If you're an experienced but job-threatened native speaker of English who can see the wry possibilities in writing headlines like the front-pager below, your time may have come. I might look into it myself.A few other keeper headlines shown here, here, here, and here; and an exploration of the thinking behind this form of ...
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Jake said:
I didn't appreciate China Daily headlines nearly enough when I lived over there.
Chris Frosheiser (2)
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In the spring of 2004, I received a letter from a man in Des Moines, Iowa, named Chris Frosheiser. He had read a piece of mine about the war in Iraq that mentioned his son Kurt’s battalion, the 2-6 Infantry of the First Armored Division. Two weeks before the piece was published, Kurt had been killed by a roadside bomb, in Baghdad. Kurt’s death sent Chris on a journey in search of everything he could ...
「コーエーテクモホールディングス」誕生 09年4月に経営統合 (1)
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RON PAUL MIGHT RUN IN 2012: Wouldn’t want to disappoint the (1)
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RON PAUL MIGHT RUN IN 2012: Wouldn’t want to disappoint the Internet, would he? Paul’s spokesman and “grandson-in-law” Jesse Benton says that a decision would have to be made in the next six months, so as to set up early ground ops in Iowa and New Hampshire if the answer’s “yes.” Could Ron Paul be the next John Edwards? [Reason]
5 Mystical Bedtime Books (1)
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Adjustafresh did a great post on bedtime books back in October, and I noticed a bunch of people commented on it. I found a few new ones there for my older kids, including the hilarious and genuine Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I thought I’d do another one, this time focused on a different kind of bedtime story. These are for younger kids, maybe 2-5, and what they have in common is the pairing of ...
The last guy | مدونة WiiPod (1)
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انقذ الحشرات الصغيرةالشرير من الصوارير الشريرة :)انت تروح تحوس بالموقع تدور حشرات صغيرة تركبه معك بعدين تشيله وتحطه بالمربع اللي بوه ثيل :) وهكذا الى ما تجمعهن كلهن قبل لا ينتهي الوقت