French Airman Takes Off from Water, Sets Back Down on It and Survives
Henri Fabr é on the dock beside his invention. The Wright Brothers may have been first, but for a number of reasons within the first decade of flight the French leapt ahead of the Americans and their
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Opposing Forces
Perhaps one measure of the power you are exerting is in how great the force is that comes out to oppose you. What you find pushing against you tells you just how much force you are bringing to bear. W
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An obscure Unitarian in the 1918 pandemic
Helen Katharien Kreps was a Unitarian theological student who died of influenza in 1919. She was born Oct., 1894, in North Dakota, when her father was based at Fort Totten, then on the Indian frontier
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The Wind
The wind came up today While I was walking It blew clean and clear and cold. I listened but there were no answers Or if there were I did not understand. How many deaths will it take? Bob Dylan asked s
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May the Circle Be Unbroken—Murfin Home Confinement Music Festival
Can the Circle be Unbroken by the original Carter Family, 1927. Those of us of a certain age recall the popular game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The idea was that the busy actorcould be connected
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Column: A Perspective on Snake
New TWH Columnist Sheri Barker explores the relationships between the snake and its relationship to the rest of nature and the Goddess. Continue reading Column: A Perspective on Snake at The Wild Hunt
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Interdependent Web: I cannot gather with loved ones
Heather Christensen A weekly roundup of blogs and other user-generated web content about Unitarian Universalism
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Shared on March 27ths: history of "progressive", more
A history of "progressive" First used by leftists—Sanders and Maxine Waters were among founders of Progressive Caucus. Appropriated by New Democrats who did not want to call themselves neoliberals. "I
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moment to movement
What do our hands offers learning? Some research has shown that we learn science more effectively (and it's remembered) when we learn hands-on, even when less breadth of material is covered. I suggest
Lenten Refections topic for day Thirty One available.
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Lenten Reflections, Day Thirty one, Fifth Friday Of Lent, You can kill the body but not the soul.
Day Thirty one, Fifth Friday of Lent You can kill the body but not the spirit. John 7: 1-31 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking f
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The Way of the River is Here For You
Dear ones – I want to say, “I have not been well,” but I am as well in body as I ever am. So do not panic when I say that! I have had another time of difficulties of the mind. And, combined with the s
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Pre-test for Religious Literacy 101 is now available.
A pre-test for Religious Literacy 101 is now available to help ascertain the baseline literacy about world religions of the students taking the course. The top score that could be made is 19. Click he
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Piles of Dead Women on a New York Street
Police and bystanders watch helplessly as more victims jump to their deaths to escape the flames of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on the upper floors of the Asch Building. It was a sunny but raw day
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The Commonwealth
“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth ― that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household,
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