Vol. 21, No. 71 — November 10, 2016
GeneFoods: The Pumpkin Pie |
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No food is as closely associated with autumn in the United States as the pumpkin.1 This is the time of year when we get the opportunity to eat pumpkin-flavored everything. There’s the now practically mandatory fall drink… the pumpkin spice latte. There’s also pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin soup, pumpkin cake, pumpkin pasta, and more. But, the most famous of the pumpkin
foods by far is also the oldest and most traditional… the pumpkin pie...
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If you believe you don’t have any more ways to research this person, you’re wrong. In this episode, I’ll show you what you can do to discover the truth about their background...
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How to Use Women’s Clothing to Identify 19th Century Photographs |
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Clothing styles are always changing. This is as true today as it was centuries ago. Clothing styles even changed every few decades in the Middle Ages as travelers and traders brought back new clothing types from the various different places they had been. You can often identify the approximate age of a portrait painting within a decade or so simply by the style of clothing worn in it. You can
do the same with 19th century photographs. You can even use different clothing styles on women to identify the approximate age of a photo. Men usually wore suits of similar appearance in photographs until the early 20th century... Read More
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The Seminole Wars: A Brief History of the Settlement of Florida |
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The Seminole Wars played an important part in the American settlement of Florida. These wars were three wars fought in Florida between the Seminole Nation (the name for a diverse group of Native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early 1800’s) and the United States. The U.S. Army was primarily used to fight these wars, though sometimes American settlers got caught up
in the conflicts. While these wars don’t get much attention in history books, they are collectively the largest conflict in the United States between the War of 1812 and the military, and the most expensive in U.S. history... Read More
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Lessons that Creative People Can Teach You |
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As photographers, we learn lessons in all kinds of ways. We read them in books, take classes, attend workshops, view the work of other photographers and experiment in the field. It is tempting to think that all of these things offer a complete learning experience — that by utilizing some or all of these things, we are learning everything that we need to know, or at the very least, we are
learning to the fullest extent possible... Read More
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