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Helen (Hunt) Jackson was an
author and an activist.
Her mom died when Helen was 14, her dad 3 years later. Helen's first child died at 11 months, her second at 10 years old. In 1879 she was
inspired after hearing Chief Standing Bear describe how the U.S. government took Native Americans' land.
She began to publish in support of Native American rights. 1881 brought her book
A Century of Dishonor [pdf], branded with the words "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations".
In 1883, she published her most famous work,
Ramona, a novel about racial discrimination set in California.
If that's too much to take in, and now you need some kitties, she's still got you covered.
Letters from a Cat (1879) is being featured at
Archive.org today.
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at 4:47 PM on August 25, 2008
(8 comments)
What program to use for secure remote PC access?
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at 5:32 PM on August 14, 2008
(22 comments)
Medpedia is
coming. "In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading global health organizations, the Medpedia community
seeks to create the most comprehensive and collaborative medical resource in the world."
Apply to contribute content.
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at 11:03 AM on July 25, 2008
(26 comments)
Best Rapper Alive? No Krs-1, no Rakim, but Scarface is there. No MF Doom, no Pharoahe Monche, but
Lil Mama is there. [
via] Voting starts July 21st.
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at 8:57 PM on July 15, 2008
(72 comments)
Searching for videos where there are city overviews set to music with vocals.
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at 12:23 PM on July 13, 2008
(9 comments)
Hello,
McFly?! Don't you know that the
McFly 2015's people have been
buzzing about for years seem to finally be arriving in a few weeks?
Auto-Lacing? Not quite, but there's
flywire! Glowing? Well, no. But you could set your wallet
ablaze.
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at 5:21 AM on June 27, 2008
(28 comments)
What are the best restaurants specific to Philadelphia for vegetarian or seafood fare
that you've been to this year?
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at 10:02 AM on June 26, 2008
(9 comments)
The
Kanye West Beat Drop. A
number of the web's best
rap blogs get
together to post and chronicle the best of Mr. West's impressive and extensive history of producing, ghost producing, and the stories around many of the songs.
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at 8:50 PM on June 15, 2008
(25 comments)
What am I missing in my diet that I crave Chocolate Chip cookies all the time?
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at 10:18 AM on June 10, 2008
(35 comments)
The first
National Train Day is this coming Saturday. There will be
events all over, and concerts, special guests and lots of train related attractions in four main cities,
Washington D.C.,
Chicago,
Los Angeles and
New York City. The day is May 10th to
commemorate May 10th, 1869 when the “
golden spike” was driven into the final tie in
Promontory Summit, Utah. It joined two major railways, ceremonially creating the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Except that
it really didn't. That did not actually happen until August 15th, 1870, near Strasburg, CO. Colorado State officials
list it (pdf) as Comanche Crossing, saying "An
unpretentious white monument marks the spot". The "drab concrete pylon" was moved from the actual site and now sits in Lions Park. Next to the monkey bars.
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at 10:48 AM on May 3, 2008
(4 comments)
Trying to find similar songs like these: electronic-ish with math-like beats.
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at 5:00 AM on May 2, 2008
(36 comments)
I am playing the Megaman Anniversary Collection on the Wii (via the gamecube disc), and it
sucks because the buttons are backwards. The game was apparently built this way. It sucks.
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at 1:17 PM on April 2, 2008
(9 comments)
What's the best way to sell used psychology textbooks online?
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at 1:35 PM on March 22, 2008
(7 comments)
"Using information provided earlier about their weekly routine, the photographer will arrive on the scene, and unseen,
take shots of the
subject." This is what Izaz Rony of
Methodizaz says he can do for you for
several hundred bucks. Or, perhaps use this self-hired paparazzi service
as a present for
friends and family?
"Without posing and artifice, the camera captures only the
natural beauty of the person." Flash website [
via].
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at 1:26 PM on March 19, 2008
(11 comments)
"Exclusive: Help us examine the lost JFK files."
The Dallas Morning News has put a chunk of documents found in a vault in Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins' office online in PDF form for the public to review for notable information.
"Given the volume, we haven't been able to review most of the files. That's why we are calling on you. Here's your chance to review never-seen-before materials related to the JFK assassination."
Though I was able to load one of the documents at first, it will likely require registration after a few attempts. [
via].
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at 11:07 PM on March 1, 2008
(9 comments)
Where are you yeezy? And try to hit you with the.... ???
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at 1:09 PM on February 29, 2008
(8 comments)
So we're letting
this stay? It's been there a few hours - I'm just wondering if something changed with policies here.
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at 10:05 AM on February 28, 2008
(87 comments)
Give me your easy, your delicious, your nummy shrimp recipes, yearning to be free!
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at 12:27 PM on February 21, 2008
(27 comments)
What is Soundgarden's song Room A Thousand Years Wide about?
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at 12:11 PM on February 12, 2008
(8 comments)
Seeing
this response by the original poster made me recall
this little pony request. The poor little thing has been left outside in the rain for a fortnight.
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at 8:30 AM on January 29, 2008
(56 comments)
Give me your favorite simple Catfish or Tilapia recipes!
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at 3:48 PM on January 14, 2008
(23 comments)
How to treat possibly broken fingers and toes?
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at 1:16 PM on January 3, 2008
(15 comments)
Can a defunct trust fund donate tax-free to a university student's dissertation?
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at 7:31 AM on December 26, 2007
(4 comments)
Fuzzmail records your email as you type it and provides the actual composition for the person,
or people on the receiving end. [
via]
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at 4:07 PM on December 14, 2007
(40 comments)
Recommend a binding machine you're familiar with for thermal/perfect binding.
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at 10:05 AM on December 7, 2007
(7 comments)
How to brush a 4-year-old's hair who hates it?
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at 10:42 AM on November 6, 2007
(35 comments)
EveryScape launched this morning. It's a ground-level mapping service similar to Google's "Street View", only it offers you an "autodrive" feature that automatically moves you through a city or down a ski slope. There are links to information about stores and restaurants in the view and the ability to go inside buildings and look around. It currently features views from
Aspen,
New York,
Boston, and
Miami. And of course the obligatory view of
a colorful mime with a man-bag. [
via]
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at 7:48 AM on October 29, 2007
(12 comments)
How can I optimize an MS Word doc compilation process? 20 into 1.
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at 12:25 PM on October 25, 2007
(4 comments)
Are there any good shoe (preferably basketball) review blogs?
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at 2:07 PM on October 16, 2007
(1 comment)
How do you examine the interaction of two factors on a non-parametric dependent variable (e.g. nonparametric version of the 2-way ANOVA)?
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at 5:36 PM on October 3, 2007
(17 comments)
I want a videocamera with good features that can easily transfer ready-to-upload files to my computer.
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at 8:04 AM on September 18, 2007
(3 comments)
Help me use my phone's internet on my laptop, without disabling the phone.
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at 2:17 PM on September 5, 2007
(10 comments)
Programmable timer in browser title?
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at 12:55 PM on May 31, 2007
(13 comments)
How do I make that backwards echoish sound?
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at 12:34 PM on May 3, 2007
(16 comments)
