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341) Comic Books Value
Author:
Robert Grazian
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
You might be sitting on a treasure chest without even knowing it. Almost everybody read comic when they were young, so you probably did, too. Some people have the foresight to keep those comics, and they are reaping the benefits now, because comic books value is always unpredictable, and the lucky ones find that they have ones which have extremely desirable comic books value.There are many factors that decide a comic book's value. Let us take a look at a few.1. Condition: The c...
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342) How Do Music and Movies Move You?
Author:
Lou Stella Barron
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
How many times have you heard a song and was immediately transported to a specific memory? Everything about that memory feels real and present. You remember details, such as how you felt and the people involved. You even remember what it smelled like! It is astounding what memories one song can trigger!Music has profoundly affected us since the beginning of man. Our brains decide for us what music we respond to most. As we go about our lives we listen to this music and unknowingly pla...
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343) "Bar Poems" and "God Complain: Poems"
Author:
Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Bar Poems
Portrait of an Old Bar
In a Forgotten Neighborhood
Oh, down at the bar the boys
are playing, singing around the
bar, on stools, chairs by tables
they sit here and there
did you hear what I whispered?
I merely whispered
here and there the boys sit, like
pinned dogs in a cage locked
as dead as dead is possible
to exist and exist there still.
I said, a poet once lived there
I saw him singing and dying,
around the bar, on stools.
Across the room,...
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344) Why so Many Robbers in Peru?
Author:
Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
I've been coming to Peru for nine years, lived her the past three, and the question comes up now and then, "Why are there so many robberies in Peru?" Especially in Lima; people (outside of Peru) think it is because of the poor ole souls here without work, it is far from the truth. Let me explain.
For the most part the economy is doing well, the poor and old the ones no one helps, especially President Garcia, are not the robbers, what little they have; they are the ones being robbed....
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345) Christmas in Luxembourg, 1975 (Ville De Remich)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Ville de RemichPart Christmas Eve DayFrom Germany, I headed west, to Luxembourg, crossed the boards with little to no difficulties. I went by car, a 1967-VW, dull green in color, it was not the best running of cars but it seemed it could make at two-hundred and fifty miles, so I decided to take a quick trip. The road was dotted with quaint, rural hamlets that most people associate with fairy tales. It was midwinter, and winter in Luxembourg, is not as extreme as it can be in n...
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346) The Wild Huckleberry Boy (A Short Sketch)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
The Wild Huckleberry Boy
(1955-1958)I called my friend, Michael Rosert, Huckleberry, or Huckleberry Mike; perhaps the reason being, he was wild, like the Huckleberry plant, he grew wild in the conservative City of the Midwest, a native St. Paul boy.The Huckleberry is a fruit of Idaho, but the wild Huckleberry grows in the woods kind of a false berry. I might have chosen to say I was like Mike, but I think as I look back, he being a year or two younger than I, I followed...
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347) The Key (A Fairytale) - Chapter 6 - Skeletons and Snakes (Part 3)
Author:
E. Raymond Rock
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
My breathing became labored, and as the poison worked its way into my heart, I wished that I had begun my quest when I was much younger, before the wars. I also wished I had paid more attention to the robed man who warned me to sweep the path! When key seekers speak, it is never for conversation or amusement.The sorcerer crossed my mind too. I found it amusing that for once, he was wrong; I would not find the key in this lifetime, and would have to come back one more time.Leave...
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348) History of Bronze Art
Author:
Anita Satin Choudhary
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
The beauty of Bronze sculpture has long been a widely used functional and artistic form of a medium. The usage of bronze and imaginative artistically talented styles of bronze sculpture has literally been around for many centuries now. Within this extremely lengthy history, bronze has been directly associated with the deep past early times of most every civilization around the world.The ancient Indus Valley civilization of more than 4,000 years ago is a prime example as for how long a...
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349) Netsuke - Creative Miniature Sculpting
Author:
Anita Satin Choudhary
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Since the traditional Japanese clothing of the Kimono did not have the convenience of pockets, there were the creative means of various sized woven or clothe boxes and pouches. These different types of carrying devices were traditionally worn around the waste for being able to carry a few of the small personal belongs that would be desired to conveniently have with them throughout the day.Along with important items like money seals or medicines, there were often also things like tobac...
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350) World of Warcraft Gold Farming
Author:
Jane Posten
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
World of Warcraft Gold Farming is easy so there is no need to envy those players in WoW who seem to find gold everywhere they look. If you are trying your best to be successful in the game, this probably catches your interest, and you find yourself trying to figure out how these players can collect so much gold in this popular role playing game. What you need is to find the secrets used by more experienced players to farm gold.
It has been said that experience is the best teacher... even onl...
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351) The Key (A Fairytale) - Chapter 6 - Skeletons and Snakes (Part 2)
Author:
E. Raymond Rock
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
I walked back to where a John was waiting and told him about the skeleton. He said he was well aware of the tragic situation and then told me the rest of the story."Soon after the woman died, her body was placed in a sealed box and stored beneath one of the huts to cure, for it would take two years before the flesh could be easily removed. During that time, the robed men who slept in the hut, using the hut and circumstances to improve their inner work, had many visits from her in the...
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352) A Long Arduous Journey, Prayer and Quest for Freedom: Olaudah Equiano's Dream
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Throughout his enslavement from Africa across the Atlantic on to America and all through the numerous expeditions with his master Pascal,and subsequent masters Olaudah Equiano kept longing and equipping himself to be free one day. Education and enlightenment was thus his constant prayer and quest.
A Captain Doran approached and addressed him as his slave. Equiano hotly contested maintaining that his master, Pascal, could not sell him to him, or to anyone else. "For I have served him many y...
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353) In The Heart Of The Whale (An Attempt to Rob a Mother Of Her Newly Born, 1947)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Based on a True StorySt. Paul, Minnesota is a city along the banks of the rich river called the Mississippi, the river originates, lays sleeping almost in upper Minnesota, and runs the length of the country, downward to St. Louis, and onto New Orleans, and into the Gulf of Mexico, this is where I was born, in the heartland of the Midwest, you could say. It carries a tremendous amount of water, and its tributaries are countless. But this sketch, or story is not about the Mississippi or...
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354) Seven English Language Literary Writers You Should Know
Author:
Larry M. Lynch
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
English Language Learners WelcomeWhether your learners come from a reading-based culture or not, you should have them become familiar with written English. There are a number of authors whose works your English language learners would welcome, believe it or not. The first in some cases though, is to have the EFL teacher become familiar with English language authors and with how their works might be utilized in class.Here are Seven English language Writers to Start You Off<p...
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355) Your Guide For Luxury Watch Gift Buying
Author:
Joseph Levy
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
If you're about to make a luxury watch purchase as a special gift for someone you care about, you want to be sure that the timepiece you're choosing is the perfect watch for that person. Whether it is for a male or female, choosing a luxury watch today is an accessory that will long be appreciated and cherished, however, it's important to remember that each person has his or her own discriminating and particular style. For that reason, before you make a selection, give thought to the persona...
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356) Big Horse With A Wire (Short Story)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
(Minnesota State Fair Grounds, 1961)University of Minnesota Veterinarian FarmsI almost feel embarrassed telling this story, but I feel I must, sad as it might be. I was fourteen-years old when it happened, with two of my friends, Jerry and Donald. We had been to the State Fair, which was going on, it was August, and underneath a fence at the end of the fair grounds, was the University of Minnesota Veterinarian Farms, where they took care of sick horses, and cows, and so forth a...
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357) The Oven (A Short Story)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
(North St. Paul, Minnesota, 1951-52)Who can remember when you are four or five the many things that made you who you are today, it is difficult, by the time you're ten, you got layers and layers of sketches to write about, or at least I do. But you can remember a few fearful items, I sure, and as years go by, put the pieces together if one wished to get the full story out of the experience. And that is how this story came to being. My brother and Steve were the culprits, and we were s...
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358) The Key (A Fairytale) - Chapter 6 - Skeletons And Snakes (Part 1)
Author:
E. Raymond Rock
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
We made our way through a peaceful countryside where we were always given the utmost courtesy and respect from the villagers. There were many days; however, when we didn't run across any villages and were forced to fast (a John was very strict about not picking and eating fruits and coconuts, or eating anything that was not first offered to us). Instead of a hardship, however, this fasting actually turned out to be an interesting benefit. After a day or two without food, not only would my hu...
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359) Dancing Styles & Dance Moves For Beginners
Author:
Ant Onaf
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
There are so many different genres of dance that one can feel overwhelmed when he or she thinks of learning to dance. However it is not as complicated as it seems.Firstly, to excel at a certain style it may take years of practice, to be able to cope with several types of dancing is not quite as hard. For many people who enjoy a range of activities, it is much more beneficial to learn a little about each style and not a lot about just one. This is because the usual person in today's wo...
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360) Love, From Vietnam To Sunset Boulevard (a Short Sketch)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
In Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, had it not been a war going on in 1971 there, you would have thought, the beautiful bay, with its white sands were just the place for a vacation.Behind a wired fence (in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam) was a village, near the white sands of the South China Sea, here young and pretty girls stood and waited for GI's, they stood behind this fence until a GI (soldier) came up to take them out from behind it-a date, but when they returned back to the village and had to go...
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