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Author: Prof Patty

  • Prof Patty
  • March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Pineapple Pie

Baked pineapple pie is a common Mexican dessert that’s not that easy to find in the States. Active: 45 mins Total: 2 hrs 45 min Original recipe submitted by Micah A Leal and published a

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 24, 2021

The American Rescue Act

By John Stoehr  March 09, 2021 The United States Senate passed Saturday a covid relief package worth about $2 trillion.2 It is a giant piece of legislation, in size and scope, akin t

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 14, 2021March 14, 2021

Today in History: Survivors of Amistad Mutiny Released

The Supreme Court issued a ruling on March 9, 1841, freeing the remaining thirty-five survivors of the Amistad mutiny. Although seven of the nine justices on the court hail

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 14, 2021March 14, 2021

Cancel Culture? WHAT?

There is no such thing as cancel culture. I don’t know how this dog-whistle changed meanings, but everything I have heard and can see suggests that complaints about “cancel culture” are used

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 14, 2021March 14, 2021

Someone Finally Got Piers Morgan to Shut Up

(I can’t abide the man -WCW) By Bridget Read Piers Morgan, a bloviated “crusty tea and crumpet ass” bigot with a history of terrible opinions and a penchant for never shutting up a

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 14, 2021

10 Things You Should Never Put in the Dishwasher

By Corey Williams  Sharp knives Non-stick pots and pans Cast iron pots and pans Wooden anything (cutting boards, spoons, etc.) Read more HERE

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

Online Classes: Teach the Black Freedom Struggle

The classes are held at least once a month on Mondays at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

Police response to mental health calls

From the Daily Skimm 2/24/21 This past year has exacerbated calls for an end to police brutality and for the key changes that are necessary to make that happen. But two cases ar

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 9, 2021November 5, 2025

Today’s recipe: Rice Pudding

Since I’m still a bit unsteady, I talked my Honey through making rice pudding for breakfast. It really is very easy, although you need to pay attention to it. short-grained whit

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 9, 2021

Can You Freeze Milk?

Have you ever wondered if something could be frozen and still taste good after? I have, particularly when going out of town and having things in my fridge that would spoil before I got back. So her

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 9, 2021

26 Things You’re Probably Doing That Nurses Wouldn’t

Sunny Sea Gold and Ariel Wodarcyk Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 Nurses spend their work lives caring for the sick—you’d better believe they know how to keep from getting sick themselves! Here are som

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  • February 21, 2021

Why Sterling K. Brown Wanted to Narrate CNN’s Lincoln Documentary

By Fahima Haque February 13, 2021 Sterling K. Brown, an actor who has starred on the hit NBC drama “This Is Us” since 2016, has won multiple Emmys, Screen Actors Guild awards, a Golden Globe, a

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  • February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

How Amazon does it

By Jonathan A. Knee February 13, 2021 The source of Amazon’s stupefying success is only one of many mysteries — and controversies — surrounding the company that started out selling books onli

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  • February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Chick Corea RIP (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021)

By Ryan Reed Feb. 12, 2021 Nytimes.com Chick Corea, the pioneering keyboardist, and bandleader who died on Tuesday at 79, will be forever regarded as a crucial architect of jazz-rock fus

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  • February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a living connection to this history and a prominent name in television and radio news, worked on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS starting in 1978, later worked in South Afr

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