Barbie’s birthday is March 9, 1959. She is the iconic American woman .. beautiful, powerful, straight and single. Most of what is known about this American heroine comes from biographies published by Random House in the 1960s. Born in Willows, Wisconsin.[9] as Barbara Millicent Roberts, her [...]
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What a Woman Did
Women Who Changed the World Through Science & Engineering: Helen Taussig – American Cardiologist and Researcher –Widely considered the founder of modern-day Pediatric Cardiology –Discovered the cause of “Blue Baby Syndrome” in infants, and helped ban the use of the drug Thalidomide for[...]
Slur of the Day
Spearchucker A term used for an African American, or other person of African descent.[175][...]
Slur of the Day
Sioux Crow term used alike the N word for Lakota people of the Dakotas. Now used by Lakota themselves.[...]
Slur of the Day
Seppo, Septic (Australian/British) An American. (Cockney rhyming slang: Septic tank – Yank)[166][...]
SPAIN: Returning to nature
Ancient beasts roam Spain’s wilderness Campanarios De Azaba (Spain) (AFP) – In an oak wood spanning the border of Spain and Portugal, an ancient sight unfolds: wild horses, not saddled or shoed, but roaming free as they did centuries ago. Farming has declined in Spain, leaving the countr[...]
BRA fitting
Ed. I hope (and think) this is in good taste. If nothing else it will give my gender a better idea of how the other half lives. [...]
Anniversary of Hitler’s Democratic Triumph
Hitler only got 1/3 of the vote ,,,about what the Tea Party controls here.[...]
What State Has The Highest Death Rate From Cancer?
Kentucky, home of the Creationist Museum, has the highest cancer death rate in the country — 227 per 100,000 people. It also has the highest rate of tobacco smokers at 25.6 percent.[...]
Photography by The Scot
Photographic Memory I’ve got to that stage of my life where I start to forget things and begin to panic I have that memory-wasting disease I can never remember the name of (See what I mean?). I have also been in the predicament of trying to determine whether the image I hold in my [&h[...]