Category Archives: History, Photography by Christine McClintock,
What Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy Could Mean for the World — TIME
If President Obama’s foreign policy was characterized by “don’t do stupid stuff” and a retracted U.S. presence in the world, then Donald J. Trump’s will most certainly be characterized by fear and confusion as the world grapples with what “America … Continue reading
Read Leonard Cohen’s Son’s Emotional ‘Thank You’ to His Father: ‘For the Wisdom he Dispensed’ — TIME
Leonard Cohen’s son, singer-songwriter Adam Cohen, took to Instagram Sunday night to pen a heartwarming tribute to his father, following the elder 82-year-old Cohen’s passing last Thursday. In the tribute, Cohen described the many life lessons that he learned from … Continue reading
NonBinary Review — Discover
NonBinary Review authors reinvent classic texts, from Grimm’s fairy tales to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Their short stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art interacts with the original work to fill in blanks, extend the story, and offer … Continue reading
Watch President Obama’s First Press Conference Since the Election — TIME
President Obama will take questions from the press for the first time since the historic 2016 presidential election on Monday afternoon. After delivering statements from the Rose Garden and the Oval Office, President Obama will answer questions ahead of a … Continue reading
Three Cows Have Been Marooned on Tiny Patch of Land in New Zealand Earthquake — TIME
Three cows have been left stranded in New Zealand after the field they were standing in collapsed in landslides following Monday’s earthquake. A helicopter flying near Kaikoura, a small coastal town on New Zealand’s South Island, captured the footage of … Continue reading
Anti-Trump Boycott Targets Retailers That Sell Trump-Branded Products — Fortune
President-elect Donald Trump and his family business is being targeted by an online boycott that is calling for shoppers to avoid supporting retailers that sell Trump-branded products. Before the election, marketing consultant Shannon Coulter launched the boycott, using the hashtag … Continue reading
Chili’s Apologizes to Veteran Who Had His Free Meal Taken Away — Fortune
The manager of a Chili’s location in Texas could face legal charges after confiscating a free Veterans Day meal on Friday. Army veteran Ernest Walker went into the Cedar Hills Chili’s on Friday to redeem his free meal, but left … Continue reading
My Mother Peggy Eileen Day McClintock is Missing – Please Help Me Find Her!
I need to ask for some very special help in locating my Mother. Her name is Peggy Eileen Day McClintock. She was born in 1938, in Rocky Ford, Colorado. For the past several decades she has lived in Littleton, … Continue reading
Who are the Picts? Scotlands DNA finds an answer.
Originally posted on Scotland in my Heart:
.A recently discovered DNA marker suggests that 10% of Scottish men are directly descended from the Picts. Many generations of historians have puzzled over what used to be called the problem of the…
The “After” Myth
Originally posted on Can Anybody Hear Me?:
After. It’s here. In my first post, Before, 3 years ago, I said “I’m not to After yet, but I’m closer to After than to Before.” I now weigh 117 – 120 pounds (depending…
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