Ulysses S. Grant

                   

Head over to Murphys and let the enjoyment begin

sacbee.com     Jul 20, 2008          

The tourism heart of Calaveras County is Murphys, a former mining town that recently has morphed into a place so hip that some are calling it the "Carmel of the Mother Lode." Much of the fun at Moaning Cavern is well above...                

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Learning As You Go

redorbit.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

Posted on: Thursday, 17 July 2008, 00:00 CDT By Ryan Reynolds, Features Editor 464-7686 or reynoldsr@courierpress.com Packing up the entire family for a summer road trip is never easy. We picked five spots in the city: Magic...                

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Sandwich history page turner

capecodonline.com     Jul 16, 2008          

Historian Stephen Farrar works on cataloguing and organizing historic photos and records at the Nye Homestead in Sandwich. Farrar will catalog and write online aids to help researchers, students and genealogists more easily...                

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The Secret History of the Republican Party

grizzlygroundswell.com     Jul 16, 2008          

ARRA News Service - Mike LaRoche, South Texian shares some amazing history of the Republican Party. I have extracted a few points but to get the full gist of his article drop by and read the completed post: To understand the...                

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L'ALBERGO DI MARK TWAIN

videojournalist.blogs.it     Jul 14, 2008          

Telling the hotel's story in book form By Nadav Shragai The story of the Mediterranean Hotel's various incarnations will appear in its entirety in a new book written by Shimon Gibson, Yoni Shapira and Rupert Chapman at the...                

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A LITTLE OFF THE TOP FOR HISTORY

stltoday.com     Jul 12, 2008   1 related          

By JERRY GUO (For release Sunday, July 13) (ART ADV: Photos NYT 30-33 are being sent to NYT photo clients. He has hair strands from numerous historical figures like George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Napoleon, Beethoven and...                

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John Y. Simon; tireless editor of Grant's papers; 75

signonsandiego.com     Jul 12, 2008          

John Y. Simon, a Civil War scholar whose mammoth effort in editing the papers of Ulysses S. Grant created a new standard for the organization of historical documents, died Tuesday in Carbondale, Ill. He was 75. His wife of 51...                

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Chris Rodda: A Tale of Two Faith-Based Initiatives

huffingtonpost.com     Jul 11, 2008          

today's faith-based initiatives, and neither of these occurred during the administrations of any of the four presidents listed by Barton. The two programs, one begun in 1819 to promote agriculture education among the Indians,...                

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N. Idaho police investigating possible hate crime

wordpress.com     Jul 11, 2008          

N. Idaho police investigating possible hate crime. The Christian Bible, and/or any hysterical Christian belief system, is not the law of the United States. If the Christians are demanding more equal rights under the law than...                

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Poker Players on Obama and McCain [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]

scienceblogs.com     Jul 9, 2008   3 related          

The Sunday Telegraph has an interesting article about poker players and the presidential candidates. It turns out that McCain likes to play craps while Obama plays poker: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on...                

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