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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Mature Technology
In 1650, French gunpowder was 75.6% Potassium Nitrate, 14% charcoal, and 10.8% sulfur. As the US Army went over to the smokeless powder 30 US cartridge (30-40 Krag) in 1892, the black powder it replaced was 76% Potassium Nitrate, 14% charcoal and 10% sulfur. The similarities in the recipes suggest that making black powder was Read more
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Skier Caught Filming Jump off Roof of Trego School
It was mid-afternoon on Friday (December 23rd), at Trego Elementary School. The temperature was below ten degrees Fahrenheit. A few people were wrapping presents to gift to the students and had been hearing some odd noises on the roof when school board member Clara Mae Crawford arrived and informed them that there were people up Read more
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Montana Improved Californians
As Walsh-Groves company moved into Trego to start work on the tunnel, I learned an unexpected abbreviation – CIO, California Improved Okie. Since the Okies had made the mass exodus to California less than 35 years earlier, and those California Improved Okies that stayed have been our neighbors here for over fifty years, I got Read more
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What’s My Share of a 1.7 Trillion Dollar Budget
I read of the US Senate passing a 1.7 trillion dollar budget to keep the government from shutting down. That’s a big number, and I’m not sure how much it’s worth to keep the government running. Then I got to thinking – we need to personalize this. There are about 330 million people in the Read more
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Bird-feeder: Cat Enrichment Device
Indoor cats get bored; In fact, probably everyone gets bored when it’s subzero outside. That said, a bored house cat can make the life of everyone else much less boring, very quickly, so it’s worth avoiding. In order to avoid the consequences of cat boredom (we have two, and they are young), I braved the Read more
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Hungarian Lentil Stew for a prosperous New Year
The tale of how my family gained some close friends, as well as a recipe learned from them. Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 