“Bull dogs” actually got their breed name because they would willingly fight bulls—and sometimes win. Despite the bull being over TEN TIMES heavier and with HORNS. The 80-pound dog could bring down a bull weighing almost a ton by corkscrewing its body around the bull’s neck. The dog would also grab the bull’s nose, which...

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My husband and I are heading to Key Largo, our first trip to Florida! While there we hope to ride on the African Queen. The REAL African Queen, the actual boat used in the 1951 movie with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. See Katherine’s biographical behind-the-scenes tell all book “The Making of the African Queen:...

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Post-mortem photography was the practice of photographing the recently deceased, common in Victorian times. It strikes us as morbid today, but photographers were often commissioned by grieving families, and these photos were among a family’s most precious possessions. This was often the ONLY PHOTO the family had of the deceased person due to (1) the...

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There are many possible purposes to a letter: to inform, to educate, to communicate feelings, to persuade, to vent, or to clarify one’s thoughts and emotions in one’s own mind. A ‘love letter’ is, of course, the most worthy of all letters, so I will begin with that. This then is a love letter to...

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