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-Benjamin Franklin
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Thanksgiving x2 (5th Annual)
You weren’t seeing double- we really are a community so rich in well-meaning people that there were two meals for the public this Thanksgiving. Both the 5th year? This isn’t our community’s first Thanksgiving Meal. It’s something of a yearly tradition. This year, the Thanksgiving Meal has grown from an informal collaboration of various groups Read more
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New Ammunition for Old Rifles
My favorite match was High Power Service Rifle – and, excepting the wear and tear on a 73 year-old body, I’m better equipped for it than at any time in my life. Ssusa.org describes the rifles used: “The match can only be shot with U.S. service rifles (or civilian equivalents) with iron sights or even Read more
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A Hint of Cooling
NOAA provides so much information about snow . . . data which nearly 40 years ago I gathered on snowshoes and snowmobile. Jay Penney led the party when I started – and Jay had measured both the highest and lowest snowfalls in the Kootenai and Flathead drainages. Younger and starting later, I only measured the Read more
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A Half Century and a Quarter Inch
My father’s first ship in the Korean war was a Japanese troop transport. On the trip from Japan to Pusan, he was one, you might call it “first”, of many Americans. On the trips back to Japan, he was often the only American with a crew that had spent WWII moving Japanese soldiers to fight Read more
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On Dolphins and the First Torpedoes
Kevin O’Brien is gone, but his Weaponsman Blog is still available. It was a great source of information when I was trying to come to grips comparing the design accomplishments of Arno Lahti with those of John Moses Browning – but this article describes the development of the first torpedoes, powered only by a heavy Read more
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Giving Away Nasty People
During the last 30 years, the book that I have given away most often is Jay Carter’s Nasty People. I think I started giving away copies when I worked at Lincoln County Campus (FVCC) in Libby, and kept replacing, and eventually giving away copies almost until retirement. Carter is a Psy.Doc – and he defines Read more
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