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MREs
When I was a 12-year-old kid living on the West Coast, my best friend and neighbor, Scott, and I were always hanging out and getting into something. Like most adventurous boys, when the mundane
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A LONG, STRANGE TRIP SO FAR
Tigers Defense Struggles To Gain Traction In Re-Arranged Schedule Story By Ron Higgins It has been nine months since LSU accepted the national championship trophy after blasting Clemson in a Mercedes-Benz Superdome confetti shower. Heisman
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Size 75 Shoes For Social Distancing
Cobbler Grigore Lup of Cluj, Romania, was disturbed to see people ignoring social distancing guidelines put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic. So he created a pair of size-75 (European) men’s shoes, each of
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Burmese Python Snakeskin Masks
Brian Wood, owner of All American Gator Products in Dania Beach, Fla., is taking face masks to a whole new level by fashioning coverings made with the skin of Burmese pythons. “Some people want
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What Daddy Left Behind
By Madelaine B. Landry My father left us in 1980, too young at age 62. Daddy wasn’t a wealthy man; so mostly what he passed on to his children could be shared, not spent.
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There’s A Buried Car In My Yard
When a man in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England, set out to build a deck in his back garden, he uncovered a mystery. As John Brayshaw, 40, began digging post holes, he unearthed an automobile
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Music School Gets New Studio
The SWLA Music School has moved into a large new studio space at 343 Broad St., between Mama Reta’s and Panorama Music House. The Music School will be housed in the back section of
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The Right To Remain Silent
A Conversation With Author Madelaine Landry By Sabrina Dowies Madelaine Landry was a third-grade student at St. Julian Eymard School in Algiers, La., when her principal announced the news of President John F. Kennedy’s
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To Bee or Not To Bee
By Madelaine B. Landry “Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.” — Sue Monk Kidd When
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That’s My Pet Foot-Long Goldfish
When Alexandria Miller of Chicago won a two-inch goldfish at a carnival, she assumed he would stay the same size. But since then, Gerald the goldfish has grown to be 12 inches long, and
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