This Week On Movie Monday Killer Flu In 1918, a flu pandemic ripped through the global population with such speed and virulence that by the end of the following year an estimated 40 million people would be dead. Where did this particular
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Oil. Some of the everyday uses are obvious. We use oil as fuel for heating and transportation, we make plastics and textiles from oil, and many common medications such as A.S.A. are also made from petroleum. The dependency on oil by modern
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This Week On Movie Monday Perfect Disaster, Ice Storm Well, watching the first real snow fall of the year outside my window, I got a bit nostalgic and thought of the event that caught me so off guard, that I vowed never
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The day has come. For whatever reason, be it environmental or situational, an emergency has struck and you are eating the food you have carefully stored up for such an event. What is on your menu? Will you tire of it in
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We are ever grateful, and shall never forget. In Flanders Fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days
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This Week On Movie Monday Surviving the San Francisco Earthquake of 1989 National Geographic released this film in 2009. On October 17th, 1989, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake devastates San Francisco. Elevated highways collapse, buildings crumble and burn, and a city survives.
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We had a bit of a run there in October with the Ebola / ISIS scare. Who knows what will come of these issues moving forward. But I learned something. It was very interesting to me how quickly our supply chains dried
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So, you wanna build a greenhouse you say? That’s a great idea that has lots of benefits. You can extend the growing season much later into the fall, get a jump start on those veggies with long growing seasons like tomatoes and
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This Week On Movie Monday TOP TEN NATURAL DISASTERS National Geographic released this film in 2013. Using eye witness video, historical archive and cutting edge CGI, they not only reveal the key moments that turned a natural phenomenon into a human catastrophe,
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