Tag: environment
group name: famousfirsts
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July 26, 2006 06:26 AM EDT --
A year ago, on July 26, 2005, the Mumbai city received the highest one-day rains (over 900 mm) in a century. When, even rains over 200 mm disrupt the city's transport system, that day it was . . .
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July 19, 2007 04:36 AM EDT --
I had a sweet tooth tonight and decided to make a box of brownies. Simple directions 1/3 c. crisco oil, 3 Tbs. water and 1 egg. mix in brownie mix and walnuts bake for twenty minutes. Done, as I . . .
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December 31, 2006 04:39 PM EST --
President Ford was the only President of the United States that I ever met personally. Well, sort of met, that is. We weren't actually introduced, at least not in the usual way. It happened like . . .
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August 22, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
I have been thinking for a long time that we all need to stop polluting our planet and do something to clean up our world. I see trash on our highways and think why would anyone throw out their trash . . .
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February 10, 2007 09:12 PM EST --
One frigid night in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the northern lights dancing in the sky, I, along with my husband Bill, were on our way to the Cathredral on Peger Street to . . .
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May 20, 2007 06:58 AM EDT --
My living room windows face west (and north). While I sit at my laptop, I am able to glance out the windows. I just received the most wonderful gift.
THE LARGEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW I'VE . . .
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January 10, 2007 11:31 PM EST --
On January 2, 2007, a few of us managed to locate the resting place of John Barnett, my 5th great uncle on my Dad's side.
Although just down the road from my home, the cemetery, full of sunken-in . . .
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January 26, 2007 04:28 PM EST --
Mozart, an iguana with an erection that has lasted for over a week, will have his penis amputated in the next couple of days.
Veterinarians at Antwerp's Aquatopia had sought to treat the animal's . . .
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March 14, 2007 08:00 AM EDT --
For the whole of February and some days in March, I was away from Gather and it felt really strange, not able to communicate with this group that has come to mean so much to me in a short while. . . .
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April 18, 2008 05:06 PM EDT --
Dedicated to John F. Walter juanfw.gather.com, consummate poet and superb playwright, a good friend and continual source of inspiration to me.
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Wikipedia states that marine . . .
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August 13, 2007 01:41 AM EDT --
During a conversation with a friend of mine, I had an idea, his family needed shelter and I had a mobile home empty that no one was living in so I suggested he move his family to Louisiana and they . . .
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July 16, 2007 07:16 AM EDT --
Similarities Between Teen-Agers And Senior Citizens
All around us, everyday, there are two groups of people that many believe to be vastly different.But,Alas, Not so! Teen-agers and Seniors have a lot . . .
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May 09, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
THIS IS NOT FINISHED! IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!
The moon shone bright above the pond. Surrounded by miles of Juniper and White Pine, the young blue-haired girl felt safe . . .
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February 08, 2007 03:45 AM EST --
Recently, a large shark has been spotted prowling La Perouse beach in Sydney, Australia; scaring swimmers and surf lovers in the sun-burnt country.
The shark has a “tendency . . .
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May 18, 2007 01:07 AM EDT --
Last night I started preparing dinner egg burritos,I thought to myself should I have one egg or two,with a cholesterol in the 300`s one must think of these things,I decided I was really hungry so I`ll . . .
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November 03, 2006 02:00 PM EST --
Well after 49 years I have just seen and felt snow for the very first time. Better than I thought it would be, But every one here is telling me that i will get to hate it by the end of Winter, . . .
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September 13, 2007 12:35 AM EDT --
How much surface does it take to supply solar energy? The image accompanying this article shows how much surface needs to be covered in theory by solar power facilities to generate enough electricity . . .
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June 28, 2007 11:06 AM EDT --
Hi everybody,
I just want to say something about Gather, and I think many of you also want to, you know, things that we think can improve our Gather experience all together. Just . . .
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July 11, 2007 10:27 PM EDT --
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June 28, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
Yesterday I awoke at dawn and wrote a short article about a turtle laying eggs...it took some patience on my part because the turtle was not very cooperative with this egg laying business and we had several . . .
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