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Author: Prof Patty

  • Prof Patty
  • September 30, 2020

Disney World Apple Pie

Hungry for some apple pie? We are right there with you. Here’s the recipe from the Whispering Canyon Café at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge—dessert will never be the same. Walt Dis

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 30, 2020September 30, 2020

Hell in a Handbasket

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. The Notorious RBG was a light for women lawyers, for women in general, for men, for workers, for all of us. She showed us what determination, excellent skills, a suppo

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 25, 2020

Mary Church Terrell

Mary Church Terrell—educator, political activist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women—was born on September 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee. An 1884

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 25, 2020

Do You Shop at a Warehouse Club?

Here are some things to consider when thinking about shopping at a warehouse club: 19 Worst Things to Buy at Warehouse Clubs 5 Ways Warehouse Clubs Try to Trick Smart Shoppers 10 Best Buys at Wareh

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Powerful Words About Anger

Sharp-minded, large-spirited, incomparably brilliant Ursula K. Le Guin examines anger in an essay titled “About Anger,” found in her altogether fantastic nonfiction collection No

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Friendship

Powerful Bible Verses About Friendship By Jorie Nicole McDonald No matter if your friends are near or far, these encouraging Bible verses will help you feel connected with them in a new way. L

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Jazz San Javier

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Gladys, Patti and Dionne

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

THE FOREFATHERS OF HIP-HOP WERE POETS WHO GAVE BLACK AMERICA ITS VOICE

Posted by The Guardian | Aug 22, 2018 | Syndicated | It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020

The U.S. has billions of dollars in unclaimed property

Do you have unclaimed cash or property waiting for you? Approximately 1 in 10 people do!  Go HERE for state information, and HERE for federal information.

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

How To Manage Diabetes Costs

Hunt for cheaper medication and supplies. Go to Goodrx.com and read their guide to saving money on insulin. Eat like you have some sense. Instead of expensive, out of season strawberries,

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020

Do You Like Mushrooms?

When I buy mushrooms and can’t eat them all at once, sometimes they start getting slimy before I can use them. What to do? First, be sure that the ones you get are not slimy but really fresh. How

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Sugar-Crusted Apple Cobbler

From King Arthur Baking Company (with my changes) PREP 20 mins; BAKE 35 to 40 mins; TOTAL 2 hrs 10 mins; YIELD one 8″ square or 9″ round cobbler Ingredients 4 medium-to-large baking app

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020

Hispanic Heritage Month Starts Today

Today (9/15/20) marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and with less than two months until Election Day, attention is on Latino voters. One study found that Latinos will be the larges

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020

A Maryland suburb known for a slaveholding past confronts its racist present

By Ovetta Wiggins September 15, 2020 at 3:37 p.m. EDT Two years before George Floyd’s killing forced a reckoning with American racism, Jordan Keemer was in his high school government cl

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NPR

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