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Itchy Ankle and some others—the News this New Year.
It was just as well Spud Hughes and the Contessa traveled to Itchy Ankle this Christmas because the Crone was incapacitated. Her right wrist, subsequently found to be broken, was useful for very little...
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Language lessons, green fields and bloody battle
The Fighting Irish from Notre Dame are named for the Irish immigrants who joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. These men stepped off the ships in Boston or New York and were immediately...
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Arthur Rae, DC Thomson sub-editor and former Bomber Command airman shot down...
Some people’s real stories find an audience only through the obituary columns, allowing them to be better known in death than they may have been in life. Thus it is for Scottish Susie’s dad who died a...
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Flagging enthusiasm, Taxidermy and the Turkey dinner
At Thanksgiving, and other holidays that center on family and feasting, it is important to have a hobby. Although I am spending the holiday with people to whom I am not related, I felt it wise to...
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