Articles for tag: Best Episodes, Franklin Pierce, MASH

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Guide to Classic MASH Episodes

Here are some of the best MASH episodes of the series. 1. Pilot – The pilot sets the stage for one of the most well-loved, longest running TV series of all time. In the pilot, Hawkeye and Trapper, star surgeons at the 4077th MASH, raffle off a nurse in order to send their houseboy, Ho ...

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Ten Facts of the Japanese Chin

We decided we were ready for a dog. Not a puppy, but a dog. Therefore, we began to research via the Internet, our friends, family, and fellow rescuers about different dog breeds. We determined that we wanted and our home (full of cats) was best suited for Japanese Chin. Ten facts about Japanese Chin #1) ...

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Haunted Algonquin Hotel New York City

The Algonquin Hotel in New York City has personified sophistication and elegance for more than a century. The Algonquin was a hangout for the witty New York literary set in the 1920’s. The Round Table Room was home to the famous “Vicious Circle” of the 1920’s, with Dorothy Parker. This was a favorite spot for ...

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Biography: First Lady Jane Pierce

Once referred to by author Nathaniel Hawthorne as “that death’s head in the White House”, First Lady Jane Pierce was probably the most continually sorrowful individual of all the presidential wives. Jane Means Appleton was born on March 12, 1806, in Hampton, New Hampshire. Her father, the Reverend Jesse Appleton, was a Congregational minister and ...

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Devil Jack Hayes-Texas Ranger

Devil Jack Hayes (1817-1883). The true story of Col. Hayes is more exciting than any fictional story that could ever be imagined. He was an early Texas Icon that overcame great odds to triumph where others failed. The son of Harmon and Elizabeth(Cage) Hayes, was born in Little Cedar Lick, Wilson County, Tennessee. His father ...

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A Brief Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The mysterious author we know as Nathaniel Hawthorne was born over two centuries ago on July 4, 1804. Salem, Massachusetts, home to the infamous witch trials of 1692, served as both his birthplace and his favorite location for devising novelistic plots. Two of his most famous novels, The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven ...

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President James Buchanan

In the decades leading up to the American Civil War, the nation experienced crisis after crisis as politicians endlessly debated and citizens took arms against each other to settle political problems. The presidents that followed Zachary Taylor either did nothing to slow the slide to war or actually made the problems facing the United States ...