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There is too much talk about hate and revenge. There are too many people threatening civility with guns and hate. There are too many death threats floating around. There is too much anger left unchecked. Will it really take someone to be killed or...
by phcarb
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 05:38 PM PDT
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The large Mineral Gallery of the Cashmere Museum in Cashmere, Washington includes several mineral exhibits. Shown below is an exhibit of petrified wood.
by Ojibwa
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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The city of Prosser, Washington, named for Civil War veteran Colonel William Farrand Prosser, was incorporated in 1899 with a population of 230 people. Colonel Prosser and his wife Flora claimed a ...
by Ojibwa
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 07:21 AM PDT
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Greetings and welcome to your recommended, weekly allowance of fluff. It's just another of my modest, little open threads on a Friday of miserable weather here in the liver of Europe. This whole ...
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Well, after much thought and consideration, I am hanging up the van keys and ending my van travels.
Several reasons. First, and to be honest, it’s just not as much fun anymore. When I first ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 01:09 PM PDT
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The Oasis Bordello Museum in Wallace, Idaho is in a building which housed an active bordello until 1988 at which time the occupants quickly left town upon hearing about a possible federal raid. They ...
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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The Pioneer Village, which is a part of the Cashmere Museum in Cashmere, Washington, consists of twenty cabins whose furnishing illustrate pioneer life. One of these cabins is the blacksmith shop. ...
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 07:04 AM PDT
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Harold LeMay, a Tacoma businessman, loved cars and managed to collect more than 3,000 automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles over forty years of collecting. A number of the vehicles from his ...
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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The area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, and Western Montana is known as the Plateau Culture area. The Cashmere Museum in ...
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 07:48 AM PDT
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Shown below are some of the sculptures in the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon.
by Ojibwa
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 07:42 AM PDT
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Lockheed’s PV-2 Harpoon is an outgrowth of the U.S. Navy’s patrol bomber program. The PV-2 first flew in 1943 and by March 1944 500 were delivered and saw action in the Pacific Theater. In 1948 ...
by Ojibwa
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 07:45 AM PDT
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In 1855 the Warm Springs Reservation was created in Oregon for the Warm Springs and Wasco Tribes. In 1869 several Paiute bands were relocated to the reservation. With regard to language and culture, ...
by Ojibwa
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 07:28 AM PDT
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The large Mineral Gallery of the Cashmere Museum in Cashmere, Washington includes several mineral exhibits. Shown below is one of the mineral exhibits.
by Ojibwa
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) in Spokane, Washington had a special exhibition The Wyeths: Three Generations . This special exhibition includes the works by N.C. Wyeth, one of America�
by Ojibwa
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 07:20 AM PDT
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In 1792 Captain George Vancouver and the crew of the H.M.S. Discovery arrived at the Strait of Juan de�Fuca and took possession of the area for England. He named�the area New Georgia after King ...
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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Fort Nisqually was established by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), a London-based fur trading company, on Puget Sound in present-day Washington state in 1833. Fort Nisqually was intended to trade ...
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 07:33 AM PDT
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As totality ended over Oregon in August of�2017, the 2024 eclipse seemed to be far into the future. Despite the seven year gap, I already had ideas about the encore eclipse. The path did not come ...
by foresterbob
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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The Thunder Dome Car Museum in Enumclaw, Washington has some small cars on display.
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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Music is an important part of being human and seems to be universal as some form of music is found in all cultures. Drums, rattles, and flutes seem to be the oldest musical instruments. Over the ...
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 07:50 AM PDT
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This park contains the remains of a Native American village that once stretched along the shore over to nearby Jungle Prada Park. There are several middens (trash piles) and the remains of a ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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