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10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Pilgrims

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Adults in our society have a long history of unabatedly lying to their children. They contrive fantastic beings and stories to sugar coat the truth behind our traditions and history. So how have generations of elementary school teachers chosen to teach throngs of young and impressionable children about the first settlers of our great country? By [...]

5 Awesome Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipes

→  November 25, 2009 1

Thanksgiving is the only major holiday that doesn’t revolve around alcohol. St. Paddy’s Day and Cinco de Mayo are obvious, so we’ll disregard them immediately. But Christmas has eggnog by the gallon, New Year’s Eve has enough champagne to satisfy a rap group for about an hour, July 4th has red, white and blue-colored cocktails [...]

5 Things We’re Ungrateful For

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Submitted By: Chris Jenkins - University of Florida Forget being a Jew on Christmas. Do you know how lonely it is to be a cynic on Thanksgiving? Everyone’s grateful for everything, and you’re left all alone with your grumpiness and misery. Well, not anymore! It’s time to share your gloom and ungratefulness with the rest of [...]

The Pilgrims’ Journey: Then Vs. Now

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Submitted By Brian Hodges - From somewhere in a West Virginia coal mine. It’s that time of year again, when we give thanks and remember the Pilgrims who escaped religious intolerance so that they might come to America and be free to practice religious intolerance the way they saw fit. There’s no denying they dealt with plenty [...]