I am not going to say one thing below that is original. But it always appalls me when people believe the opposite of the truth and I have to speak up about it. Eugenio Pacelli was a small but determined man of great intelligence and high principle. He became Pope Pius XII in 1939 and [...]

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We have encountered a bit of a technical online issue, however we do have a solution. Hopefully tomorrow we will have the DVD’s at a location with super fast upload capacity, we will still need to render them, but data is coming your way as fast as we can process it. I have not had [...]

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Yesterdays data dump from St Johns is a treasure trove, it will take days to wade through all of the information. I found the phone conversations from Tommy Croslin riveting listening. We have just started on he video discs, and with 5 DVD’s that is a bit of a daunting task. We have rendered part [...]

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 Ku Klux Klan (Tea Parties?) The history channel had an excellent two hour program on the Klan yesterday. As the website below suggests, it went through a series of ups and downs and is still around: “The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Tennessee by veterans of the Confederate Army.” [...]

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Death from Blood Poisoning Prior to Anti-Biotics Death from blood poisoning prior to anti-biotics was quite common. A cat scratch almost did in one of my grandfathers. Britton Hadden, a co-founder of Time Inc. with Henry Luce (a relative I met once working at a Yale reunion) died of complications of influenza: http://www.smokershistory.com/Time.htm Small injuries [...]

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