• Languages on Postcards

    Languages on Postcards

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    Postcards do many things, but it is impossible to learn a language from a postcard – or is it? Read about the languages of fruit, stamps, or flowers. Then you decide.

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  • Stars and Uniforms

    Stars and Uniforms

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    Having to stop your journey, whether long or short, to buy gas, wasn’t always the chore it is today. High prices aside. Sixty years ago, you went to the man who wears the star.

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  • Hey, Corrigan: You’re Going the Wrong Way!

    Hey, Corrigan: You’re Going the Wrong Way!

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    History enthusiasts enjoy early aviation stories. Here’s one a lot of people know “about” but all they know is that he the flew wrong way. Here are a few details.

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Past Article

Steven Taylor
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In the last decade of the 19th century Pasadena, California, became a resort city where the rich met the resourceful. Some would say, where the money meets the brain. One encounter, the one between Thaddeus Lowe (the rich man) and David Macpherson (the brain and a Cornell University engineer), met and the Mount Lowe Railroad was the result of their joint assets.

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