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Review: Dermasil Dry Skin Treatment

I couldn’t believe my luck when I found Dermasil Dry Skin Treatment Original Lotion in the Dollar Tree store. The bottle is 8 fluid ounces (1/2 pint. 237 ml), and only cost me $1. The bottle is white plastic and has a flip top lid to it. It states on the front that it is ...

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Visiting Guam

The island of Guam, owned by the United States since 1950, is located southeast of Asia, south of Tokyo and east of Manila, in the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by the Philippine Sea to the west. It is the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas Archipelago. The island is very small, only a ...

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Book Review: Ross Leckie’s Hannibal

Hannibal was among the greats of ancient military history, the equal of Caesar and surpassed only by Scipio and Alexander. It is a tragedy that a novel as poor as this bears his name. Ross Leckie’s first mistake is to try and compress Hannibal’s expansive career into a work of less than 300 pages. This ...

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“Decoy”: Origin and Meanings of the Word

Most people know that the word decoy generally means a lure of some kind. But its origin and extended meanings have some surprises. Decoy entered the English language in the early 17th century. It comes from Dutch de kooi, literally “the cage,” with kooi based on Latin cavea (“cage”). The original meaning of decoy was ...

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Laura Calder Talks Turkey

Author and host of the Food Network Canada program “French Food at Home,” Laura Calder is all about creating rich, simple and elegant food. Her show, which currently airs on Cooking Channel and Food Network Canada, offers viewers the ways and means to sumptuous dinners, desserts and more. Calder left a day job in Toronto, ...

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History of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts

Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts was founded in 1630 by newly arrived settlers from England. Boston itself was not founded until a year later. As with many of the settlements of that time, the main industry in Dorchester, Boston Massachusetts was agriculture. They knew how to build in those days. They built homes to last forever. The ...

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Cook Yourself Thin Cookbook Review

Cook Yourself Thin is a television show on Lifetime and a cookbook that promises you can drop a dress size by making skinny meals in minutes. Candice Kumai, Harry Eastwood and Allison Fishman are the stars of the Cook Yourself Thin show. They claim the Cook Yourself Thin approach is not a fad diet, but ...