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It was the longest bar I had ever seen. Every one of the 20 or 25 bar stools at the arrow-straight counter were taken, except one near the middle. Everyone sitting at the bar was bent over staring into their drink...
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But all of this pales in comparison to the time I came upon the creatures in the inky black waters of the partially frozen creek.
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In 2017, The New York Times published "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program". That article helped change the common perception about UFOs and intelligent life on other planets from "goofy people who wear tinfoil hats" to "Hmm, maybe there is something to this."
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I was focused on using the bathroom. But first I had to get there. Step one was getting out of the car. And to do that I had to bend my knee. The pain was excruciating.
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Growing old is frightening and difficult, but we know it's part of life. We share growing old with each other here as we swim just fast enough to match the current and stay in one place.
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”In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation."
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“The headline in the Anchorage Daily Times got it wrong. Chief Sturgus wasn’t found dead. He was shot, and died about an hour and a half later."
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A quirky but true story about finding a home. Howard Greenstein served in Korea for a few years in the late 1960s. Shortly after he was discharged he was put on full disability. He never talked about it. I don’t know what happened, but I can say this: to
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Brother Charley Edgar praises God but has an unusual day job Brother Charley Edgar, pastor of the Prosperity Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, had a day job. He investigated murders, probed into court records and domestic relationships, and documented corporate negligence. He was the owner of Charles Edgar and Associates, the
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And I thought the drive was going to be boring…
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"In nearly every Alaskan town there have been cases of children being torn to pieces by a malamute that has reverted to the savage state."
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"At times, all of the Indians in some of the villages were down with the illness, and the sick were cared for, and the dead buried, by Commission employees."