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Category: History

Loanwords – Borrowing words from another language

By Marion Posted on August 8, 2021 Posted in BTS, BTS ARMY, History, Twitter

  There’s a threat that often permeates Twitter in regards to BTS/ARMY! Non-Koreans, don’t you dare use the word, Noona 누나. And most often, it’s not done in a polite way, leaving us feeling like we’ve committed some sort of …

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For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me

By Marion Posted on April 29, 2021 Posted in History, STEM

  I’m sure you’ve heard by now of the passing of Michael Collins, command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. For many his name and face bring instant recognition, but for those of us who lived …

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Remembering 9-11 Our personal experience

By Marion Posted on September 11, 2020 Posted in General Interest, History

  My husband and I, met two of our best friends at the Detroit airport the morning of September 11, 2001.  Slated to be a four day trip to Las Vegas, our flight left shortly after 8 AM on that …

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Covid-19: Keeping Things in Perspective

By Marion Posted on May 14, 2020 Posted in Covid-19, General Interest, History

My cousin shared this with me. Thanks Karen. Subject: Keeping Things in Perspective It’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For a small amount of …

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Photo of the Day – Gettysburg

By Marion Posted on April 11, 2020 Posted in History, Mare's photos, The great outdoors

This was one of the photos I took while visiting the Gettysburg battlefield. Happened to catch this person taking in the view.

VI Corps Combat Engineer forum is down

By Marion Posted on January 6, 2020 Posted in General Interest, History

My WWII forum – VI Corps Combat Engineers, is temporarily unavailable. I finally decided to upgrade the software after a very long delay, simply because I didn’t want the hassle of updating MySQL and PHP on my webserver. I knew …

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