True story: my nephew at 39ish is looking for his ideal mate. Like a son to me! But he doesn't want to get married, has strong religious beliefs, loves the outdoors very much, doesn't want children, is an extreme vegetarian, doesn't believe in hospitals, etc. Plus one or two quirks: he believes
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07/30/2018
Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras, British India (present-day Chennai India) in 1936, one of ten children to British Army NCO Mervyn Dorsey, who was of Welsh descent, and his wife Olive, who according to Dorsey was of German descent. It is also believed that he is of Anglo-Indian descent. H
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07/29/2018
I sat down with a neighbor this morning at my favorite coffee shop and after 10 minutes a woman walked in who I've talked to briefly in the past but she recognized me and we started a conversation. Her husband had passed recently and she was beaming about her grandchildren.Her 14-year-old daught
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07/28/2018
Yup. Adrian! That's the emperor who loved his estate in the countryside so much that he would take up his horse and head out of Rome as often as he could to enjoy the natural world, escaping politics, noise, the crowds, etc.He actually ruled from this extravagant villa in the latter years of hi
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07/27/2018
Curves come with benefits.While curves are a human attribute, straight lines are definitely a machine age characteristic.Did you know that there isn't a single straight line in Greece's Parthenon. If you place a hat on one edge of the stepped base, you cannot sight down from the other end and se
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07/27/2018
This is the most well known and documented house in the world. It is the most famous. More famous than anything FLW created. More famous than anything in Beverly Hills, more famous than the Biltmore, etc. Not a palace --a Venetian villa, a gem that has endured the passing of time...+++++++++I
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07/27/2018
Brando/branding -- branding/Brando. Without Brando branding this movie, it may have flopped.About 35 years ago I spent 4 months developing a logo. It was very important in those prehistoric times... That was the big thing in those days. And a business card. Before the internet, email, textin
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07/25/2018
NYT report: In a new study, the researchers report testing 18 bottles of California rosé and cabernet sauvignon from 2009 onward and finding increased levels of radioactive particles in the wine produced after the Fukushima disaster. In the case of the cabernet, the levels of the radioactive mate
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07/24/2018
This is a conceptual plan for multi-generational living. I had the traditional facade version (see a few paragraphs below) built in Austin, Texas and also prepared a design for a Modern interpretation (above). Please bear with me while I go through some historical development before I reveal th
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07/22/2018
