I read something interesting in The Chronicles of Oklahoma about my great great great grandfather John Cook Robinson... He traveled to Richmond in 1863 during the Civil War to deliver a letter to Jefferson Davis about Confederate General Douglas H. Cooper and the Chickasaws ( Read more... )

So... after getting into Epcot and looking around a bit... we met up with Dad and Darlene, as we were hoping to do. Dad and Darlene had arranged to be in Orlando as they were later taking a cruise from southern Florida to Europe (where they are at this present time ( Read more... )

I thought this was a bit interesting....  if the population of Europe was proportionally moved into North America, it might end up looking like this....


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Here's a song to be inducted in my Song Hall of Fame...  "A Taste of Honey" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

It's an instrumental from their 1965 album, Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Wikipedia says the "recording won four awards including Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1966. The instrumental spent five weeks at number one on the ( Read more... )

Another to add.... "All My Loving" by the Beatles

A great little tune, early Beatles... and covered by a lot of people... including the Tijuana Brass, which I used to listen to as a kid.

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I want to share a few insignificant memories from a crossing into Tijuana with my friend Kevin way back in March 1986...  Had mentioned it in my journal 30 years ago, but didn't say very much about it ( Read more... )

I scanned a few pages of my journal from 30 years ago that have a couple pictures and description of a trip with a friend, Kevin, to California during Spring Break March 1986....    The pictures nor the description are all that great...  we didn't take a lot of pictures in those days...  Maybe I'll try to write down my recollections of that trip to ( Read more... )

30 years ago in my journal ( Read more... )

Was thinking about this lately and wanted to paste some excerpts from Wikipedia here about the depopulation of American Indians thru disease:

"Many Native American tribes experienced extensive depopulation, averaging 25-50 percent of tribal life lost due to disease. Additionally, singular tribes also neared extinction after facing severely ( Read more... )

Also for my Song Hall of Fame... "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

An epic song about the Spanish conquest of the Latin American indigenous people...

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