Hearty Peanut Soup for a Sunday Supper
A 1794 note of Jefferson’s peanut yield at Monticello leads to a Peter Pan kitchens recipe for creamy peanut soup. The dish blends peanut butter with milk tomato juice and vegetables, served hot with parsley and bread. Also recalled are colonial stamp act protests naming Sons of Liberty and Loyalist resignations before the act’s 1765 start.
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Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
South
Isaac Barre
House of Commons
Barre
Sons of Liberty
Snake King of Hong Kong keeps serpents as pets and business
Fred Chan, 56, headmaster and chemistry teacher at St. Pierre's College, runs China Wildlife Co. and has become one of the world's largest snake dealers. He recalls dreaming of being surrounded by animals as a boy in China and now trains pythons as pets, turning a school display into a thriving enterprise with about 2000 snakes in boxes lining his shop.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
Fred Chan
Chan
St. Pierre’s College
China Wildlife Company
South China
Molotov Cocktail Origin Tied to WWII Russian Resist
The Molotov cocktail is a homemade bomb using a gasoline filled bottle and rag wick. It originated with Russian civilians fighting Nazi forces in World War II and is named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molo tov.
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Ussr
Molotov
Covent Garden Opera House Opens in 1732 Era
The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London began as a theater for plays pantomimes and opera. Handel directed music there from 1734 to 1737 while the surrounding area grew from a convent garden once owned by Westminster Abbey.
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Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
London
George Frederic Handel
Opera House
Abbey of Westminster
Utah Backpacking Trip Might Be Last for MS Victim
Gary M. Smith a 32 year old Idaho native and noted environmentalist musician and ranger travels with eight friends into Utah's Escalante region. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in March he faces possible decline yet remains determined to fight the disease with music and conservation work while supporting MS research and opposing industrial encroachment on wild lands.
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Utah
Escalante Canyons
Gary M. Smith
Smith
Utah Canyonlands
Gary Smith
Idaho
Escalante
Logan
Mountain West
West
Unions Gain Among Government Workers and Women
Organized labor reports sizable gains among government workers and women per the Conference Board. About 20 percent of national union and employee association members are government employees and 25 percent are women. Key factors include federal workers gaining collective bargaining rights after an executive order, more women entering the labor force, and rising union membership among white collar workers.
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Conference Board
National Union and
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W.Y. Times Service
Environmental Movement
Red Rocks
Lake Powell
The
Sierra Club
Friends of the Earth
Environmental Defense Fund
Canyonlands National Park
Forest Service
Sawtooth Mountains
Zales
Zales Custom
BankAmericard
American Express
Diners Club
Carte Blanche
ILTEN
WWA
Targe
Custome Care
Second Ave
S.E
West End
2Nd Ave. Bridge
Country Kitchen
6Th St. S.W
Baylor
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