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The Harm We Permit: My Mother’s Lesson on Silence and Responsibility
The life lesson a mother taught: silence in the face of wrongdoing carries its own responsibility. Explore courage, conscience, and moral accountability.
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The Ohio Valley / Western Pennsylvania Personality Type: Tough Hearts, Sharp Humor, Quiet Depth
Explore the Ohio Valley and western Pennsylvania personality type: tough, funny, loyal, guarded, emotionally deep, and shaped by industry, hardship, and resilience.
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Midland American Speech: The Accent You Thought Wasn’t an Accent
Discover Midland American Speech, the overlooked U.S. dialect often mistaken for no accent at all. Explore its psychology, history, identity, and hidden cultural influence.
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Born in the Information Age: How Fortunate We Really Are
Sometimes I stop in my tracks and realize just how lucky I am — how lucky we all are — to be alive in this particular moment of history. Especially for someone like me who has so many questions wondering around in her head.
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Company Towns and Sharecropping: Freedom in Name, Bondage in Practice
History often reminds us that when one form of control ends, another rises in its place. After the Civil War ended in 1865, the United States entered a new era where slavery was formally abolished, but new systems appeared that kept people trapped in cycles of labor and debt.
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The Strange History of Arm-to-Arm Vaccination: Humanity’s Living Chain
Imagine standing in line, sleeves rolled up, waiting for a doctor to take fluid from the blister of the child in front of you—and then scrape it into your own skin. Not a metaphor. Not a horror story. This was medicine in the 1800s. It was called the arm-to-arm vaccination method, and for decades it…
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Hate Was a Swear Word in My House
Lately, I’ve been wrestling with a heavy realization: racism and hatred are not some shocking “new” forces unleashed on our world. They’ve always been here. From the genocide of Native peoples in the 18th century, to slavery and Jim Crow, to anti-Asian exclusion laws, to the horrors of Nazi camps — hate has shaped the…
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Luxor: The World’s Oldest Living City
Imagine strolling through a city where pharaohs once prayed, queens once ruled, and temples still whisper the stories of gods. That’s Luxor, often considered the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth. Unlike most ancient capitals that crumbled into ruins, Luxor never stopped breathing. Today, it’s both a bustling modern Egyptian city and a living museum…
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Where Bells Don’t Ring
It seems to me I’d like to go Where bells don’t ring, nor whistles blow, Nor clocks don’t strike, nor gongs don’t sound And I’d have stillness all around.
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Midland, Pennsylvania — Major Events Since 1900
(THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES.) 1905–1906 — Company town is created and incorporated.• 1905: Pittsburgh agent T.K. Miller buys land to establish Midland Steel Co.’s town site.• 1906: Midland is incorporated as a borough and developed as a company town for the Midland Works. Wikipedia 1911 — Midland Steel sold to…