MANNERS AT THE TABLEHOW TO USE YOUR NAPKIN:NOTE: Linen and paper napkins should be used in the same manner.Pick your napkin up only when your host or hostess does and, if it is a small napkin, open it up entirely and pace it on your lap. If it is a large dinner napkin, please leaveContinue reading “SHORT READS”
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The Family That Would Not Live
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Colin Dickey | Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places | Viking | October 2016 | 10 minutes ( 4,181 words) ? Below is an excerpt from Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. In this excerpt, Dickey sleeps over in the purportedly haunted Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, Missouri, the historic home of a 19th-century beer brewer whose suicide…
The Cabin on the Mountain
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Colin Dickey | Longreads | March 2022 | 24 minutes (4,226 words) ? Two men are dead in a cabin on the side of a mountain — how did they die? There is a whole host of questions like this — riddles that get grouped under the category of “lateral thinking…
The History of WordPress (in four minutes)
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Coast Guard Lessons
The Mariner’s Needle You are underway, in fog, when you hear a whistle signal of one prolonged blast followed by two short blasts. This signal could indicate a vessel… The October 2020 question was: You are underway, in fog, when you hear a whistle signal of one prolonged blast followed by two short blasts. ThisContinue reading “Coast Guard Lessons”
A Pool of Thoughts. Our first client wrote a book during the pandemic, of 2020-2021. He is 85 years old.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bwy9i-107b730 My book represents the work of many who have written down our family history before me. JMP http://www.Jamesmapespool.com
Thank you for building AMERICA — STARLIGHTER MAGAZINE
https://www.genealogy.net/misc/emig/gta-revu7.html To all the countries and immigrants around the world. Thank you for building America. Thank you to each and everyone of you. Thank you for building AMERICA — STARLIGHTER MAGAZINE
HOW TO WIN MODELING CONTRACTS
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Starting A Van Zyverden Farm In America
Van Zyverden, Inc., has been a principal in the flower bulb industry for 100 years. It is one of the largest wholesale distributors of flower bulbs in the United States, shipping over 450 million bulbs and plants in the U.S. and Canada annually. Headquartered in Meridian, Mississippi, Van Zyverden also has facilities in Sassenheim, HollandContinue reading “Starting A Van Zyverden Farm In America”
DEAR FOSTER AND ADOPTED CHILDREN
“When my adopted mother and father passed away, I began looking though an old desk drawer that had not been used for years. I came upon old, typed note paper, as I began to read the documents, I started to cry. They were the best parents any child could ever wish for. Rose M LeoContinue reading “DEAR FOSTER AND ADOPTED CHILDREN”
Building Orange County, California
A POOL OF THOUGHTS
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After your purchase a copy of your E-book log in here: E- BOOK – A Pool of Thoughts (jamesmapespool.com) I have written this book to perpetuate memory, foster, promote the principles and virtues of my Dutch, German, and Bohemian ancestry. My ancestors maintained a library relating to their settlement in America. This book is principallyContinue reading “SHIP TO CASTLE PODCAST”
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