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The Recreational Activity Vehicle with optional 4-wheel drive, otherwise known as the Toyota RAV4, was introduced in 1996. It was redesigned for 2006 with significant safety improvements, more entertainment options, and lengthened by 14? overall. This compact SUV is very fuel efficient with an average of 24 city mpg - 30 hwy mpg. The manufacturer offers three models to choose from: a base model, a

Melaka is among the third smallest Malaysian state. The state of Melaka is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula. The capital of the state is Malacca Town and the state is headed by the Governor or Yang di-Pertua Negeri. This historical city has received the popular World Heritage Site of 2008 by UNESCO. Melaka History Melaka is founded in 1400 by Parameswara, a young Hindu prince

Attraction type: Melaka Church, Catholic Church, Historical Landmarks About St. Peter’s Church St Peter Church - a catholic church - was built in 1710 after the Dutch allowed the people of Melaka to openly follow their faiths. It was constructed by the descendants of the Portuguese emigrants who came to settle in Melaka and made it their home. The architecture of the church is a true blend

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It’s Christmas Eve. The children are quietly excited about what presents Father Christmas may bring them tomorrow. Pare

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!When Thomas Paine penned the words “These are the times that try men’s souls” on this day in 1776 Nomanda knows exa

The Dakar, 5650 km of pure adventure over some of Argentina's and Chile's toughest terrain, will launch the KTM Factory team and many other participants riding the "Made in Austria" machines into 18 days of excitement and fierce competition ...

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The guy who invented the humble light bulb, Thomas Edison, decided to splash out on this day in 1882 and strung a whole l

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!With little regard for the children of the province of Flanders the authorities choose this day in 1582 to adopt the Greg

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!There are many of us who think that the present criminal laws and penalties are a bit on the soft side. No such thing in

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!If a bit of physical exercise is your way of keeping warm during the winter months then you could do a lot worse than the

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!I guess most people are fascinated about whether or not there is life out there somewhere. In fact over the years there h

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Following the defeat of the Royalists and the execution of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell was sworn in as the English “Lord

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!As the festive season approaches the current rash of pop singers are queuing up releasing their so called Christmas recor

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!I know that the Christmas season is upon us and it’s difficult for all the kids out there to be patient and wait for th

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The “Rebel Without a Cause”, James Dean began his career on this day in 1950 by making a Pepsi commercial. He would g

Today isPoinsettia DayFlower of the Month: Paper White Gemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!You stick them in the ground, put your ball on top of them and then blast away with your drive

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!First of all our dog “Boule” would like to thank all the doggie friends who commented on his recent blog on 8th Decem

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!This day in history seems to have been a popular one for picking up the Nobel Peace Prize, or in some cases sending your

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!OK the farting’s over and time to get back to business as normal!Working class Northerners unite and join Nomanda in ce

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Whatever else you may think about Nomanda, I like to think that I’m pretty fair in life and after I told our dog that y

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Normally Nomanda finds interesting facts that have occurred on this day in history and picks out a few celebrities who ha

For those regular readers of this blog, you may have figured out by now that I post stats and market updates on the weekends.  I typically will post them sometime between Friday-Sunday.  Sometimes, if there’s lots of new information and I have the time, you’ll get bombarded with even more stats during the week. ***The foreclosure chart [...]

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Today is the festival of Saint Nicolas. He is the patron saint of sailors, the protector of children and the patron saint

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!According to their own historical records the famous auction house “Christie’s” held their first sale in London on

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Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Yesterday the humble potato made an appearance on the blog and today it’s the turn of the egg! Not just any egg, but th

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The humble potato made its debut on the English scene on this day in 1586 thanks to the efforts of one Sir Thomas Herriot

Flower of the MonthPaper WhiteGemstone of the Month: TurquoiseNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The launching of a new car model is always something that the car manufacturer wants to make a lot of fuss about. He want

Gemstone of the MonthTurquoiseFlower of the Month: Paper WhiteNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!“BINGO” shouts the fat lady furiously waving her card to be checked and to be paid her winnings. Well we all have the

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Nomanda isn’t a rocket scientist and therefore any observations I may have on rockets, satellites and other flying object

Student travel promises to be an enjoyable trip. Not only do students can visit several places, they could also learn so much on every trip. And since air travel agencies as well as airlines provide student travel discount and special student travel rate, student travel is becoming more and more available for greater number of students who want to explore and learn more about the world.For first t

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Some things are worth waiting for and sometimes the wait can be a very long time. It was on this day in 1818 that the Russi

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It is a special day today on the occasion of her wedding on this day in 1947 of the then Princess Elizabeth to Duke Philip

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!I’m sure they all thought it was a good idea at the time on this day in 1893 when the enterprising team at New York World

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The story goes that it was on this day in 1307 that William Tell shot the apple off his son’s head with his crossbow. He

Plan to join the Ridge Historical Society (10621 S. Seeley Ave.) for an opening reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 22. read more

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The ruler during the Golden Age, Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne on this day in 1558. As well as ruling durin

Here's a partial list of the North Adams MA Antiques Estate Auction I've started on eBay. Most start as $9.95 and under, and there are No Reserves. Click here for the background story on this estate: Click here to see the auctions. * 10kt gold authentic Edwardian era odd antique Gothic ring * An antique George Jensen art nouveau sterling tulip brooch. I think it's a tulip. * A stunning 10

Previously I discussed the historical price of gold. Generally people think of gold as an investment more than silver. But silver is a precious metal and can be bought as an investment just the same as gold. A relative of mine bought some silver as an investment during the boom in the 1970's and it took decades for the price to return to the level that he paid. Today I'll look at how th

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Johnny Cash made his first chart appearance with “Cry Cry Cry” on this day in 1955. Thankfully he would go on to do bet

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It was in this day in 1492 that Christopher Columbus landed on the island he named San Salvador and was greeted by the nati

Melaka (Malacca) is known for its historical prominence and its cultural appeal. It is located on the south-western coast of Peninsular Malaysia, about 147 km or a 2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. In the 16th century, Melaka enjoyed a reputation as the foremost maritime trading centre in the region. So coveted was Melaka by the European powers that it was ruled successively by the Portuguese, Dut

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!America’s oldest golf course, appropriately named “St Andrews”, opened in Yonkers, New York on this day in 1888. From

YEAR Notable Historical Events in the fiberglass Insulation Industry 1897 Fiberglass Invented. 1930s Scientist discover asbestos can cause fatal scarring in lung tissues. 1938 Owens-Corning develops a process to manufacture microscopic glass fibers that are sprayed with chemicals to form fiberglass insulation. 1955 Memo to Owens-Corning president notes: “

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!One of Walt Disney’s classics “Fantasia” was released on this day in 1940 and even though there’s no dialogue it ca

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The “Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze”, Jules Leotard performed the first flying trapeze circus act on this day i

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!“On the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month we will remember them.” It is 90 years ago today

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!When a couple of travelling salesmen get together they usually share their thoughts on the products they sell, how difficul

The threat of unstoppable plagues, such as AIDS and Ebola, is always with us. In Europe, the most devastating plagues were those from the Black Death pandemic in the 1300s to the Great Plague of London in 1665. For the past 100 years it has been accepted that Yersinia pestis, the infective agent of bubonic plague, was responsible for these epidemics. This book combines modern concepts of epidemiol

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The fast New Zealand bowler Richard Hadlee will have fond memories of this day in 1985 when he achieved his career best of

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider : Yahoo's Historical Hit: The Obamas On Election Night   —  Barack Obama's longtime campaign photographer David Katz took 82 pictures of the soon-to-be first family election night.  Later, Katz uploaded them to Yahoo's (YHOO) photo-sharing site, Flickr.  Gawker's Ryan Tate puts it in perspective:

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It was in this day in 1974 that Lord Lucan disappeared and has never been seen since! His timely disappearance was the nigh

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It was on this day in 1872 that the US cargo ship the “Mary Celeste” began her fateful voyage. The abandoned ship was f

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Now that the newest president of the United States has been decided, we can once again watch national news channels without those frustrating three-tier tickers dancing across the bottoms of our screens and the familiar red and blue banners with up to the minute projections of the latest polls. Still, last night proved to be [...]

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: Topaz Nomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!On this day in 1917 New York state allowed women to vote for the first time and on the same day the Bolshevik Revolution b

Book Marketing Buzz: Book Promotion & Publicity Tips: How to Promote Your Books is a continuing series to help authors learn how to promote their books. If you would like to be a guest blogger for our book promotion and publicity series, click here. Our guest blogger for today is J.L. Miles, author of Cold Rock [...]

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!“Remember remember the fifth of NovemberGunpowder, treason and plotI see no reason why gunpowder treasonShould ever be fo

Of Course I am speaking about the American Presidential elections ,it is historical for America and for the world.It is historical for the world because for the first time we watch and follow a Presidential election in a country in this way thanks to the technological advance that made us really a small village or even smaller.Since the morning I am watching the elections process in America despit

Flower of the MonthChrysanthemumGemstone of the Month: TopazNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Shining light into the darkness the Alcatraz lighthouse spilled out its first beams on this day in 1854. It is the oldest n

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!In a classic example of good manners and Victorian etiquette it was on this day in 1871, surrounded by hundreds of black na

Gemstone of the MonthTopazFlower of the Month: ChrysanthemumNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It was on this day in 1512 that the Sistine Chapel ceiling painting undertaken by Michelangelo was first exhibited to the f

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Just 359 years after the famous Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, Galileo, had been placed under hou

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Where would the world be without Clarence Birdseye who sold his first packet of frozen peas on this day in 1952? Peas suddenly t

La Crime Writers’ Association ha reso noto il vincitore dell’edizione 2008 per l’Ellis Peters Historical Award, premio con cui viene insignito il miglior thriller storico dell’anno e intitolato alla memoria di Ellis Peters, creatrice della celebre serie di Fratello Cadfael. Le nomination per il 2008 erano state: Ariana Franklin, The Death Maze, Bantam Press Philip Kerr, A [

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!There can be few things more humble than the ball point pen. However despite the fact that a patent was taken out for the design

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!This day in 1900 marked the closing of the second Olympic Games held in Paris. The whole event was something of an endurance tes

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!One of the most famous gunfights in the history of the “Wild West” took place on this day in 1881 at the OK Corral in Tombst

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!In the long running wars between the English and the French this day in 1415 was to mark a famous English victory at Agincourt w

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!As a smoker Nomanda feels that we are forever being ostracised from society with more and more restrictions coming along every d

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It was on this day in 1844 that the 7th Day Adventists waited for the second coming of Jesus. William Miller had predicted this

The markets have been pretty terrible this year with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrials falling 36% and 33% respectively from the end of the year. Major indexes still remain about 39% off their all time highs set just one year ago. Many asset classes have declined in value including real estate investment trusts, international stocks, mid cap and small cap equities,foreign currencies as wel

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!We have all heard the expression “Not bad for Government work” which I understand is supposed to represent something somewha

Italian Rapier-an Effective Historical Martial Art With A Growing Following was written by Seppel BellotWe have all heard of kendo and kenjitsu, of the lingering spirit of the old Samurai school and of the precision and effectiveness with which these Japanese martial arts are taught and learned. But did you know that European swordsmanship from the Renaissance is equally precise and, most importan

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The “King of Calypso”, Harry Belafonte was on his way to greatness on this day in 1955 when he recorded what has become his

One of the places we visited during our recent sojourn to Houston was the George Ranch Historical Park, a 23,000 acre working ranch which was founded in 1824 as part of Stephen F. Austin's Colony by Nancy and Henry Jones. The ranch is the representative of how European settlers established their empire in the new world. Numerous interesting sights met us at the ranch. I am sharing them all with yo

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Of course these days we’re all used to things happening at the flick of a switch as it were and get very frustrated when we fl

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!E M Forster chose this day in 1910 to publish his popular novel “Howards End”. Judging by the number of TV series and films

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!It was on this day in 1860 that the first British Open Golf tournament was held at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. This inaugur

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Nobody I know likes to go to the dentist. However if you think of the times before injections and anaesthetics it must have been

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The English King, Henry VIII seemed to get just as bored with his life as he did with his wives and in order to provide a spot o

And 8 easy ways to fix it by David Kelsen Here is the chain of events as it has played out over and over again, throughout history, because people just don’t pay attention. A country incurs an expense it cannot fund organically A country borrows from a source other than it’s own government to acquire the funds necessary [...]

And 8 easy ways to fix it by David Kelsen Here is the chain of events as it has played out over and over again, throughout history, because people just don’t pay attention. A country incurs an expense it cannot fund organically A country borrows from a source other than it’s own government to acquire the funds necessary [...]

And 8 easy ways to fix it by David Kelsen Here is the chain of events as it has played out over and over again, throughout history, because people just don’t pay attention. A country incurs an expense it cannot fund organically A country borrows from a source other than its own government to acquire the funds necessary [...]

Want to own a condo unit in a historical country like Panama? Let me tell you about what Panama has to offer first. They provide various geographic offerings such as tropical vegetation and eco-tourism, breathtaking beaches, 5-star condo hotels, and world-class diving and fishing. It is also an ideal geographic location for its year-round warm [...]

I found the photo below in the book "History of Lanna" by Saratsawadi Ongsakun, a great resource on the history of northern Thailand. The photo shows a province hall sometime around 1900, when the provinces were still named Mueang instead of Changwat. The sign over the entrance reads ที่ว่าการเมือง (Thiwagan Mueang), a name now only used for the district offices which

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!The cuddly bear, “Winnie the Pooh”, the fictional character created by A A Milne, made his debut on this day in 1926. His ad

For all of humankind’s history, we’ve been fascinated with hidden places. Before they were a fun architectural addition to new homes, hidden rooms and secret passages served a purpose. Most often, that purpose was to allow someone to hide or escape from some kind of danger. At other times, though, they have [...]

Their Assembly Member is known (to himself) as Richard the Lionheart, but the BNP entered even further into the realms of historical fantasy today with this Pyongyang-style summary of last week's plenary session: "Tories, Labour, Lib-Dems, Greens and other Tweedle-Dee Tweedle-Dum parties on the Greater London Assembly were all shocked last week when the only GLA member to oppose their motion on gr

Gemstone of the MonthOpalFlower of the Month: CalendulaNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Thought by many to be the origin of the superstition surrounding Friday 13th it was on this day in 1307 (a Friday) that the Fren

Flower of the MonthCalendulaGemstone of the Month: OpalNomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occurred on your day. Enjoy!Although Richard of York gave battle in vain on this day in 1459 at Ludford Bridge he would eventually go on to control England

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