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This Thanksgiving, Learn The Truth About Thirsty Pilgrims, Indigenous Brewers And Beer

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"When American schoolchildren learn about the Thanksgiving holiday, their teachers tell them the Pilgrims traded with the Native people for corn. Though it doesn’t appear that the members of the Wampanoag tribe who supposedly supped with the immigrants produced alcohol of their own, so-called Indian corn provided the starchy base for many a stateside beer for the next two centuries or so. And despite conventional wisdom, indigenous North Americans have made and consumed alcohol for more than 1,000 years."

"Beer lovers argue over whether the Mayflower actually docked in Plymouth—not their intended destination—because they ran out of beer. The story is basically true, according to Plymouth Plantation governor William Bradford, who wrote in his account of the Pilgrims that he and around one hundred passengers “were hasted ashore and made to drink water that the seamen might have the more beere” for their return voyage." READ MORE
 

Sting's Pets​

Does Sting Have Any Pets?​


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"Sting currently owns a number of dogs consisting of Irish Wolfhounds and Pointers. His favorite breed is Irish Wolfhound and his wife Trudie Styler's favorite is the Pointer. He has always loved dogs and had many through the years, which he was often photographed with."(READ MORE)
 

Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.​

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"The lament is as old as education itself: The students aren’t paying attention. But today, the sorun of flighty or fragmented attention has reached truly catastrophic proportions. High school and college teachers overwhelmingly report that students’ capacity for sustained, or deep attention has sharply decreased, significantly impeding the forms of study — reading, looking at art, round-table discussions — ever deemed central to the liberal arts."

"By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made."

"We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose extractive profit models amount to the systematic fracking of human beings: pumping vast quantities of high-pressure media content into our faces to force up a spume of the vaporous and intimate stuff called attention, which now trades on the open market. Increasingly powerful systems seek to ensure that our attention is never truly ours." READ MORE
 
Rare video of Live with Regis and Kelly from September 11, 2001

Hey everybody, the original uploader of this clip has posted the full 60-minute copy of this entire broadcast as it happens. Right below this link where you can view it.
 
Billy Graham turned 99 on Nov. 7, 2017—which means he's entering in his 100th year. Watch and share these notable reflections, as well as Billy Graham's own words on what it means to live the Christian life.

Billy Graham's 99th Birthday: Notable Reflections
 
Neil Armstrong didn't often talk to the press. But one time, he talked to me
Sharon Coolidge
Cincinnati Enquirer
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"When I moved to Cincinnati in December of 2002 to work for The Enquirer, I knew what every American child learns at some point in elementary school about Neil Armstrong: He was the first man to walk on the moon."

"What I didn't know, after living two months in Cincinnati, is that Armstrong lived in Indian Hill and he never granted interviews."

"So, when an Enquirer editor sent me to interview Armstrong, I said OK. It was Feb. 1, 2003, the day the shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing the seven crew members on board."

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Notes and the story from Sharon Coolidge's Neil Armstrong interview. Sharon Coollidge

"What happened next is the kind of reporting day you never forget."

"I got lost trying to find him."

"I cried."

"I eventually found him on a quiet Indian Hill street."

"And I knocked on his door. A lone woman, with a notebook in her purse."

"And Neil Armstrong himself answered." (More)
 
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