Saint Patrick’s Day, or Saint Paddy’s Day, is an Irish holiday intended to honor the greatest of Ireland’s saints, Saint Patrick, who was neither a saint nor Irish. Putting aside the historical and cultural irony for now, the importance of St. Patrick has morphed from a 1500 year old symbol […]
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How many WordPress plugins are your best plugins? Are they working together efficiently or just sitting there staring at each other incommunicado? Of your plugin arsenal which ones are the ones you absolutely need, and are there WordPress plugins out there that you don’t have and are missing out on?
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Quite simply, Destination Lithuanian America is a massive project which aims to eventually document 100% of the Lithuanian sites that exist in the United States. You might be tempted to think that’s an easy task, but no, the Destination Lithuanian America project (aka “Tikslas – Amerika” in Lithuanian) has documented
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Find out why I give the MyHeritage PedigreeMap a rating of 5 out of 10. It’s great but there are major limitations as well. There are bugs in the system so here are the positives and negatives, pros and cons, the pluses and minuses, the good and bad about this
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“Alabama: The History of a Deep South State” is a carefully constructed montage of the history of the state of Alabama from its earliest native inhabitants up until the modern period. Of course, the actual state itself did not carry the moniker of Alabama as we know it until 1819,
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Manasco Cemetery is located in Walker County, Alabama, tucked away in the beautiful countryside surrounding Townley. Townley sits west of Jasper, northeast of Fayette and surrounded by other small towns such as Carbon Hill, Glen Allen, Berry, and even the eponymous Manasco, one of Alabama’s many ghost towns. Manasco Cemetery
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“God’s War” by Christopher Tyerman knocks all other Crusade books off of the shelf! It’s 922 pages of amazing page-turns; I mean when’s the last time you read a 900 page book without some sort of latent fear of actually trying to finish it? Tyerman’s “God’s War” is both macroscopic
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Put simply, the “shiny object syndrome” is about distractions and fractions. It’s where you encounter distractions and only accomplish a fraction of what you should have. Sadly, only a fraction of your potential. Shiny Object Syndrome, as its name denotes, is the loss of focus in being distracted not by
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The Hermitage is the mansion of Andrew Jackson, acclaimed General and 7th President of the United States. Andrew Jackson’s figure stands as a towering monument to American history that can never be torn down; his home, The Hermitage, is equally illustrious. At over 1000 acres, The Hermitage is truly a
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This is the obituary of General Manasco, aka., General John Manasco of Alabama. It is not my telling but is my transcription of a newspaper article that was published on March 27th, 1895 and again republished on February 15th, 1922, both in the “Mountain Eagle,” a local newspaper in Jasper,
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Dameron Marsh in Virginia is a 316 acre promontory that lies along the northeastern point of the Northern Neck of Virginia just above where the Rappahannock River empties into the Chesapeake. It is a beautifully serene wildlife area and nature preserve that takes some driving to get to, but definitely
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Alabama became a state on December 14, 1819 and 2019 marks the Alabama Bicentennial: 200 years of being a state. It’s time to celebrate! Whether you’re “built by Bama,” a Southerner, or a proud American, 200 years statehood for any state is something to sink your teeth into and reflect
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One of the coolest things I’ve ever come across while doing genealogy was to discover that my 4th great-grandfather founded his own town in 1879 – Manasco, Alabama – which is now a ghost town! It’s not just a ghost town because I said it is, it’s on a historic
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The 2019 SOTU, State of the Union Address, was delivered on February 5th, 2019. It marks Donald Trump’s second SOTU and the effects were even more rousing than his first. Although a bit more subtle in tone, this 2019 SOTU was still a masterful speech delivered by a President I
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My 2018 Reading List has been very much historical. I’ve focused on the histories of Colonial America and Medieval Europe for the most part as well as a melange of other interesting tidbits. A lot of what I read came from my travels to Canada, California, Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama
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