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Grocery Bag "Yarn" | When people see the handbags some of us carry around they never believe that we’ve made them from regular grocery bags. I bet I’ve been asked about 65,000 times in the last few years–”How can you possibly crochet with a grocery bag?” Consequently, this story has been told quite a bit, but never here on the blog. So, for those of you who’d like to know—this is how you do it. Take one innocent looking grocery–the thin, noisy kind–and smooth it out flat. Fold it in half lengthwise and smooth out again. Fold in half again, and smooth out. Cut off the bottom seam, and the handles at the top. Fold in half again. Cut the strip into 1 inch pieces… until you’ve cut the whole strip. Open up the loops… Remember making rubberband chains when you were a kid? Well, it’s like that. Pull one loop through the other until… they knot together. -pretty much like yarn. It’s a great way to recycle those silly bags and make our own teeny tiny dent in the local land fill. And now you know the true secret of the universe.

Original Civil War photographs Home A Labyrinth of Ice - RGB Picture In the U.S. city of Buffalo have built the world’s largest ice maze. For its construction took 2,200 ice blocks weighing 272 tons. REVISITING THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF GETTYSBURG AMERICAN GHOSTS | October 17th 2008 Gettysburg was the blood-drenched turning point of the American civil war. And as soon as it was over, another battle began--over how it would be remembered and mythologised. Stephen Budiansky keeps going back to the battlefield... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008 America's restless reinvention, even more than its newness, leaves little room for ghosts. But I've been to a couple of places where the past was suddenly near, hauntingly palpable. The only other places where I've ever felt something similar in America haven't even had the eerie benefit of solitude or a romantic air of abandonment going for them. And yet if any place in America feels haunted, Gettysburg does. Just this year, the park service opened a huge yet ever so discreetly concealed new visitor centre, tucked away in newly planted woods, to replace the modernist 1960s building that stood smack on top of the Union positions on Cemetery Ridge. Others are just odd.

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Appomattox Introduction he surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ended the Civil War. Genes to Cognition Online IMPORTANT: Adobe Flash Information As of December 31, 2020, Flash animation technology is no longer supported by web browsers. Several DNALC educational sites, including G2C Online, were built using Flash, especially those featuring animations. Some DNALC sites will be retired, but much of the animation and video content is available on the DNALC website under Resources. In addition, we are reworking our most valued, up-to-date content into current technologies. Simple Mapper We developed Simple Mapper to power this web site on the brain. G2C Blog: Thoughts on Thinking Did you know dolphins can stay constantly awake for weeks? Young parents and workaholics are very familiar with the effects of sleep deprivation, and almost everyone is agreed – it’s not the most pleasant place to be! 3-D Brain The G2C Brain is an interactive 3-D model of the brain, with 29 structures that can be rotated in three-dimensional space.

Civil War Letters Collection Home » Civil War Letters Collection Tis hard to see the mighty prancing war horse, trampling the dying and dead beneath their merciless feet. No dear wife, near to speak a word of comfort. No living sister or Mother to administer relief in that hour the most sad in the history of humanity. O the humanity. A selection of original Civil War correspondence between soldiers from the battlefields and their family members and friends on the homefront. "The battle has been raging all day in the distance and I am unable to ascertain whether any thing has been gained or not. The letters and original writings have been transcribed as written, with no attempt to change spelling. About the Database The Civil War Letters Collection was created with the CONTENTdm software's innovative new program, JPEG 2000, which enables materials to be displayed in a higher quality, more usable online format.

Crochet Companion Cube « Pumpkin Orange I spent the last week making this for my dad for fathers day. One crocheted companion cube. I took inspiration from a couple of other peoples takes on the companion cube: One here: So I decided to come up with my own pattern for one.

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