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The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of...

I am another one from News Vine. To the people on here that know me, I was Phuggy over there. I'm using MY name here. I see a lot of folks from the other place, so I feel at home here. To those that don't have any idea who I am, I', almost 65, a female and sometimes ornery, especially when I don't feel too good; seems to be mroe and mroe of the time these days.Sometimes I write true stuff and...

by Minnie ApolisIt is a mere seven weeks until April Fools' day, but I heard about a pretty well-executed practical joke and just had to tell ya about it.It goes like this. Guy lives in a dorm, right? Does his own laundry, right? Does some separating of clothing like normal, not all whites together because there are not enough white items to make a load, but separates by hot and cold wash and...

Well, today I finally did what I never thought I would do: I deleted my Newsvine account. There is no more "bitemore" on Newsvine.Shortly after I sent it into the vast reaches of Cyberspace, I looked at an article by someone I respect (I refrain from using names here), who had a very good article on what was wrong with the Vine, and who mentioned that now comments were restricted in length (a...

Science Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family Bouckaert et al. ABSTRACT There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of the Indo-European language family. The conventional view places the homeland in the Pontic steppes about 6000 years ago. An alternative hypothesis claims that the languages spread from Anatolia with the expansion of...

In reposnse to some good advice posted by our fellow NewsTalker, Tacos y Margaritas , in a article he posted about "Slowing down" and reading things twice before responding, I said; There are many people that could read an article 6 times and they would not change their mind from the 1st impression they formed, not even for themselves .... because that is the way they're built. Once they...

One of the most startling results of the expanded neocortex, the primate brain that appeared about sixty million years ago, is the development of the social group. Primatologists have determined that, due to their highly social nature, all primates need to maintain personal contact with other members of their social group; in non-human primates, this is usually through grooming, activity in...

The Decisions made by Obama and Drone strikes seem to me to be far less intusive than a full fledged invasion into Iraq and non invasion of Syria.GOP prefers the Invasion to prop up the expenditures for our Millitary world dominance plan.SUMMARYSyndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks joined Judy Woodruff to discuss the White House release of a Department of...

WOW! Blown away by the discovery of children's cells in the blood and brains of their mothers after pregnancy! This condition is called chimerism after the fire-breathing Chimera from Greek mythology, a creature that was part serpent part lion and part goat. Naturally occurring chimeras are far less ominous though, and include such creatures as the slime mold and corals. Microchimerism...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28479757@N07/3145244676/in/photostream Valentine's day comes Ambassador charms florists Flowers emit love [The poem was written to mark the visit of US Ambassador,Dan W.Mozena to Godkhali,the flower growing village of Bangladesh to inspire flower farmers on 11 February,2013.]

This quilt is one I'm making for one of my granddaughters. I have just about finished the quilting and hope to mail it off to her in about a month. I like the bright colors--her room is a pale purple with blue/turquoise curtains. I've made quilts since the late 70's. I've been working 40 hrs a week at a job for 12 years so I don't have as much time to work on them as I once did. But the...

Newsvine was one of the leaders of the blog arena for at least a half a decade from about 2006 to 2011 and then management decided , apparently, to fix something that was not broken. From 2011 to to now I was simply there, wrote a few articles, wrote a few comments on articles of interest, but something had happened, and I lost interest. In fact I lost interest in the whole blogging...