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• On July 19, 1799, a French soldier in Egypt discovers the Rosetta Stone, a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The artifact held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly 2,000 years. More ... Dear Tom and Ray: This is a question I have always thought I knew the answer to, but now I am searching for a concrete answer, and who better to turn to? Does a vehicle use more gasoline in starting the engine than it uses in idling for say, five to 10 minutes? More ... July 17, 1958 The Whitesburg Development Association called today for a general cleanup in town which would feature the tearing down of shacks, garages, toilets, chicken coops or other buildings no longer in use. Circuit Clerk W.L. Stallard Jr. asked Letcher County drivers this week to come to his office as soon as possible to obtain their driver's licenses. More ... ALL MY CHILDREN - Ryan's memories from the last four years returned, but he couldn't tell Greenlee that he still loves her because she and Aidan were blissfully happy together. Annie threatened Greenlee to stay away from Ryan. Adam was determined to protect Colby. JR believed that Colby had a drinking problem. Zach was suspicious of Annie's involvement in Richie's death. More ... ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your persistence pays off as the information you demanded starts to come through. The pace is slow at first, but it begins to speed up as the week draws to a close. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) An unwelcome bit of news jolts the Bovine, who would prefer that things proceed smoothly. But it's at most a momentary setback. More ... • "Whenever I walk my dogs, along with doggie bags for cleaning up their messes, I also bring an extra plastic grocery bag with me. I often see empty bottles, cans and other trash that has been haphazardly thrown to the side of the road by environmentally unfriendly motorists and passersby. More ... Remember all those cookbooks from the '80s that promised gourmet microwave meals in minutes? We all know they were mostly full of it. Reality is, most of us have rarely met a microwaved chicken that didn't come out better fit for bouncing than eating. And don't even think about beef. More ... The trouble with potato salad is that it's hard to make on a whim. The time needed to cook the potatoes - never mind if you want to add hard-boiled eggs and bacon - makes potato salad a poor accompaniment to otherwise speedy dinners of burgers and dogs. More ... When life demands a no-cook meal, it doesn't have to come from a takeout box. Or at the expense of good nutrition. For example, the shredded meat of a store-bought rotisserie chicken can be used to create a number of quick, wholesome meals. The key to keeping it healthy is to always remove the skin, which contains large amounts of fat. More ... If you're organized enough to pack the kids' lunches the night before, good for you. For the rest of us, there are simple shortcuts that can help streamline your morning routine. One of the easiest, yet perhaps least obvious, is to make breakfast do double duty. As in, make extra breakfast foods, then turn the excess into lunch. More ... Don't you sometimes wish you could live life as simply as you did back in the '40s and '50s and maybe just a taste of the '60s? Life was hard but simple and a whole lot more fun. People have become so dependent on all the fancy gadgets in use today that they go all to pieces if the electricity goes off for a short space of time for upgrading or from other causes. More ... |
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