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    Alabama or Florida What place would you rather be laying on the beach in the sun getting a nice tan, Alabama or Florida? I mean they are both great and are both enjoyable, but what if you had to choose one! They both have great locations and they both have oceans or pools to swim in. I mean they both are terrific places to go and you should be lucky to go to either! It is your choice, so what’s it going to be Florida or Alabama. There are some major things to consider, they have different weather patterns. I think that Florida has a better chance in being warmer and sunnier when you go, and Gulf Shores you take a little chance with it being colder and wetter. I still think that you can have a great time when it is colder and raining but it…

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    As the New Year gets underway, why not make sure your vehicle is in top shape for safe commutes to work, school and around town. Sora’s Sharon Woods Collision Center & Service in Cincinnati, OH specializes in comprehensive and affordable maintenance services for your car or truck. From oil changes and brake repairs to the replacement of old batteries and engine repair, the family-owned and operated automotive repair facility has served the Cincinnati area since 1980. Customers have come to rely…

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    P3a. Description The utilitarian shed located at 186 Pacific Way is a one story post-war shed that was constructed in 1953. It is located a block south of East Washington Boulevard. The surrounding area, including East Washington Boulevard consists mostly of 1940s and 1950s post war sheds and industrial plants. The property located at 186 Pacific Way was associated with the consolidated steel architectural development of the 1940s and 1950s. The industrial shed a vernacular shed and…

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    There was little interest in the process per se. Only one of four counties visited had a completed recovery component in its emergency management plan at the time of Hugo hit. This Deficiency was tied in with the generally low level of knowledge, experience, and functional skill in emergency management (Donal D. Hook, September 10-22, 1989 (SPRING 1991)). 2. Knowledge about Emergency management educational resources, documents, and information centre was slight. Further there was no interest on…

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    Francis Petty grove was born in Calais, Maine, in 1812. While being educated in his home town. He grew up to enter into a number of independent business activities in New England. He paid fifty dollars for the land that is which known as Portland. He owned a lot of warehouses that made money off of grain, lumber, and salted fish. Later at the age of 75 he died, he was buried at Port Townshed. …

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    The Way It Has Always Been Done South Carolina’s denizens are stuck in their ways. More often than not, the reasoning behind something is that “that’s the way it’s always been done”. Traditions are all good and well, but perpetuating unnecessary acts is simply nonsense. South Carolina is full of highly intelligent people; there’s no reason these people cannot introduce some new ideas and shake things up. Sometimes, change is good. Sometimes, change is needed. South Carolina would improve vastly…

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    into slavery or being captured. There were many interviewees that was from Fairfield County that was a part of slavery in some type of form. Ms. Louisa Davis was an ex-slave that was born in the Catawba River section. During the time of her interview Ms. Davis was 106 years old, she has had her trials and tribulations of many years and managed to survive through them…

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    “There exists no luck, everything is as it should be. We meet the people we are fated to meet. We experience what we are fated to experience in our life.” - George Brady. George Brady was born on February 9, 1928 to Karel and Marketa Brady in Czechoslovakia. They lived in a yellow house on the main square of the town Nove Mesto na Morave alongside 3500 others. The Brady family was known at the time for their family business of making skis, which was located under were they were living.…

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    The Graniteville train crash is one of the most deadly train crashes to occur since the 1970’s. On the evening of January 5th, 2005 a 12-car Norfolk Southern freight train P22 pulled into Avondale Mills textile plant. While doing this, the crew onboard hurriedly had to open a switch to allow their train to get onto a siding before the end of the hour, which they were required to stop working by law. However, the crew of train P22 as it was later found, did not return the switch to its original…

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    the following two videos: “Charleston Shooting a Chance to Reexamine History”, and “150 years after the Civil War, America is Not Post Racial”. Despite these videos appearing to be on entirely different issues to the American public, Ken Burns brings up the argument in both videos, of Americas’ continual issues with race and misinterpretations of history since the Civil War era. The first video, “Charleston Shooting a Chance to Reexamine History”, brings…

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