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by Dictionary Scoop The Great Depression, a period of economic instability that lasted from the early 1930s until the end of the decade, was one of the most challenging times in American history. Kickstarted by the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, the recession hit hard, bankrupting thousands of businesses and leaving no one …
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by Kevin Burton My wife and I loved our South Dakota-Nebraska vacation last fall. We really didn’t want to come home. On the way home I kept a Nebraska station on the car radio well past the point where we could actually hear it well enough to recognize a song. “Hey, if …
by Kevin Burton I don’t think trivia is trivial, do you? Trivial means of little value or importance. Not all of what can be called trivia fits that description. Some is news I can use. Anyway, my friend Tracy sent me the following trivia months ago and I am just now getting …
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