Joe Frazier Quote – Life Runs At People
“Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.” – Joe Frazier
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Poem – Tropical Garden (By Mary Bone)
Tropical Garden In my mind I see a tropical garden with Palm Beach petals. The flowers are natural and colorful, reminding me of a rain forest in Brazil. There was a russet hue from the sun. This was truly a dream in paradise.
Read moreLogan Smith Quote – Success
“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” – Logan Smith
Read moreEdith Piaf Quote – You Pay For
“Every damn fool thing you do in this life, you pay for.” – Edith Piaf
Read moreJohn Ruskin quote on Humility
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility, an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.” – John Ruskin
Read moreAmy Wigfull – Sleepwalker falls from hotel window
A sleepwalking British woman fell 50 feet from a hotel window, but survived because her sleeping body was relaxed when it hit the ground. Amy Wigfull, 24, was on vacation in Spain when she stumbled into the hotel bathroom and crawled out of a sixth-floor window while still asleep and plummeted to the sidewalk below. Experts say that the only […]
Read morePoem – Suicide Bomb (By Fern G. Z. Carr)
Suicide Bomb – By Fern G. Z. Carr cavernous thunder shattering normalcy sirens cries, shrieks, moans, whispers shards of metal and glass raining in torrents rat-a-tat-tat rat-a-tat-tat chests impaled by metal girders corpses crushed, smashed oozing blood eyeballs frozen wide open in terror, coated in soot body parts strewn asunder […]
Read morePakistan turns to coal to keep factories running
Until recently, Pakistan has not used the bulk of its coal reserves – some of the largest in the world – for power generation. Within the past year the government in Islamabad has signed a number of financial and technological agreements with China aimed at exploiting massive coal reserves at the Tharparkar mine in Sindh province, in the south of the […]
Read moreLife Expectancy In Syria
Since the start of the Syrian civil war four years ago, the average life expectancy in the country has dropped from 79.5 years to 55.7 years, about the same as in South Sudan and Malawi, according to a new U.N. report
Read moreFamily gets $17,000 internet bill for trip to Canada
A Canadian spring break trip turned out to be pretty expensive for one Michigan family. As the parents drove over the Ambassador Bridge into Canada, their 11 year old son was unknowingly racking up thousands of dollars in roaming data charges while watching videos on his iPad. “It was an innocent trip,” said Mike Domzalski. “We had never been to […]
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