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Getting started: Best gardening season

BY JOYCE WOODSON, Garden Enthusiast Fall and winter (and maybe early spring) are the best times of year for gardening in Pinellas County. The temperature is less oppressive, the sun less intense. There are fewer bugs and, therefore, fewer diseases. We even have regular rain through November. Over the past few months, this blog has […]

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(1995) Barbara Jordan’s Acceptance Speech for the Sylvanus Thayer Award from the United States Military Academy, West Point

On October 5, 1995, three months before her death, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan received the Sylvanus Thayer Award named in honor of Sylvanus Thayer, Class of 1808, who was the thirty-third graduate of the Academy and who nine years later became its fifth superintendent. The award is

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1995

Black History Month - African American Inventors

Patent Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for insuring that a motor vehicle is being operated by an authorized operator. The apparatus includes an electronic control unit (ECU), an engine immobilizer unit, and a shared encryption key. The ECU generates a challenge by combining the output

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The San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities of Color in “America’s Suburb”

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Patient Zero: Thomas Eric Duncan and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the United States

In the following article Dr. Clarence Spigner, Professor of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes the life of the first patient to die of Ebola on U.S. soil and the larger crisis of Ebola in West Africa. He views it as a consequence of a long history of

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A descendant of the wild guinea pigs of South America, todays domesticated guinea pig is viewed by many as an easy pet for children. Many parents select a guinea pig as a first pet for their child, believing a small pet needs only a small amount of care. It is important to understand that these

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Black Barbers, Beauty Professionals Push Gov. Newsom to Reopen Their Shops – Voice and Viewpoint

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Charles Mitchell, Slavery, and Washington Territory in 1860

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1860

(1867) Frederick Douglass, “Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage”

? In 1867 Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist and civil rights leader, weighed in on one of the most contentious issues of the day, suffrage for black men following the Civil War. His address, given in January 1867, during the Congressional debate on black male voting in the territories, appear

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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded on the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans;[9] [10] [11] on the north by the neighbouring

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(1864) Frederick Douglass On “The Mission Of The War”

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(1932) Angelo Herndon Addresses His Jury

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(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”

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Clay, William Lacy, Sr. (1931- )

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(1879) John Mercer Langston, “The Exodus: The Causes Which Led The Colored People of the South to Leave Their Homes – The Lesson

? In 1879 an unanticipated migration of nearly seven thousand African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to Kansas prompted a debate among national black leaders. Frederick Douglass thought it unwise that black women and men would leave the South. John Mercer Langston disagreed. As in this

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