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Jul 27, 2005

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Health & Wellness

You are a Person First

What does it mean to be socially accepted? When do people of size get to experience the same rights as everyone else? Or do you believe we do have the same rights? Many people do not believe fat people have rights.

By: Peggy Hoehne

Partners & Parents

Three Good Plant Books

Three plant books written and illustrated in three different ways. Gardening Wizardry looks at the interesting fun-filled things kids can do with plants; Becoming Butterflies shows what happens when students care for the milkweed eating Monarch butterfly caterpillar; and Whose Garden Is It? introduces readers to the relationships in a garden.

By: Georgene A. Bramlage

Science & Nature

Richard E. Smalley - Fullerenes and Nanotubes

Richard E. Smalley is a Nobel Prize winning chemist at Rice University. He was part of the team that developed supersonic beam laser spectroscopy, as well as the team that discovered fullerenes.

By: Jackie DiGiovanni

Mind & Soul

Extra, Extra, Read All About It. . .

Flash!!! You think Christianity is going down the tubes, that Islam is the fastest growing religion on the planet, that the New Age is acutally making inroads into modern culture, that God is dead? Fat chance. Read this little blurb from World Net Daily. No matter where you stand on the issue, you'll be enlightened.

By: Richard Kent Matthews

The Voodoo Murder of Pennsylvania I: Background

This is what the press called the murder of Nelson Rehmeyer, the Witch of Rehmeyer’s Hollow. The killer’s were John Blymire, 18-year-old Wilbert Hess and 14-year-old John Curry who believed the witch had hexed them. PowWow is the magickal art of the Pennsylvania Dutch used for healing, protection, love and other positive purposes. According to belief, when one is hexed she or he has to find out who cast the hex in order to remove it. Rehmeyer and Blymire were both PowWow doctors, as the magickal practitioners of this art were called. Both were known as healers, although Rehmeyer’s talents were far greater than the younger Blymire’s. Explore the fascinating world of a witchcraft murder and trial unknown to most residents of the Keystone State.

By: Jill Stefko

The Voodoo Murder of Pennsylvania II, the Crime and Trial

The background as to why Nelson D. Rehmeyer, the Witch of Rehmeyer’s Hollow, was murdered has been set in the first part of the Voodoo Murder of Pennsylvania. While the Pennsylvania Dutch and German populace of the Hexbelt of the commonwealth believed in spells, mainstream society thought this was silly superstition. There had witchcraft trials in Pennsylvania and William Penn sat on the grand jury of one of them, but, this was the 1920s. Judges and other elected officials believed that to give credence to the beliefs of the “superstitious” Dutch would make Pennsylvania the laughingstock of the USA. The court wanted to totally suppress any testimony about witchcraft. The press wrote about the sensational trial. This attracted the attention of lawyer Clarence Darrow of Scopes Monkey Trial Fame.

By: Jill Stefko

Plants & Animals

Care and Feeding of Lizards Part II

Care and Feeding of Lizards – Part II A continuation from last month’s article – a quick sheet for Care and Feeding of Bearded Dragons.

By: Paym Bergson

Do Pets Sweat? How Animals Stay Cool in Hot Weather

Find out how your pets keep cool in the hot weather.

By: Maureen Fleury

Facts and Figures - Natural and Synthetic Foods - part 1

Synopsis: The negative effects of refined sugars on health. Some facts and figures relating to diseases from these effects. How the body is like a factory, knowing how to process and maintain health. A list of symptoms and conditions caused by nutritional deficiencies. Ways to build a healthy body through nutrition, whole foods and the Mediterranean Diet. 1286 words

By: Carolan Nathan

Sports

Of greater significance was the discovery that I could actually listen to games that were being played elsewhere. Speak about opening a case full of worms. At about dusk, it becomes possible to receive clear channel, 50,000 watt AM radio stations. Clear channel simply means that at sunset, less powerful stations must sign off the air, leaving the frequency to the most powerful stations.

By: Harold Friend

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