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POPSFasnacht in Helvetia WV-Appalachian History Fasnacht means "fasting eve" in Schwyzerdutsch, the German dialect spoken in the Swiss canton of Helvetia. In West Virginia's Helvetia, homes are decorated with scary figures to frighten Old Man Winter away. These after all are the Rauhnächte (rough nights), the nights between winter and spring, when evil ghosts are supposed to go around.
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POPSReflections Amazing how our values change, particularly when we are not making a lot of money from this "commerce".
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POPSCut off from the world Here, in Saint Laurent de Cerdans we have not had electricity cut as we produce electricity independently of EDF. We lost internet, phoneline & mobile network for 4 days ~ restored yesterday evening
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POPSIn Hard Times "My mother, Virginia, had always known the secret: the donor was her father, Samuel J. Stone. I took the suitcase with me to our log cabin in the woods of Maine, and there, one night, began to read letter after letter. . . "
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POPSWomen in Swiss Canton Gained Full Right to Vote in 1990 The struggle for civil rights is a long one but the tide is deffinatly on the side of inclusion. Like the decisions of nations and states that disenfranchised women after previously granting them the right to vote, history will remember prop.8 as a dark spot on the march to the equality the founders proclaimed.
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POPSGM Going Chinese? You think anyone would want to invest in a Shanghai Suburban or a Canton Corvette? Egg-roll Escalades anyone? =)
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POPSZurich says no to restaurant's breast milk menu Locher offered SFr16.25 ($14.50) for a litre of milk, calculating that he needed about five litres to put a menu together. He got "one or two" responses to his advertisement but had no time to collect any milk by the time the authorities intervened.
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