October 3, 2009
Many people see the fall and winter as a time to close down the garden and wait until the spring to start up gardening activities again. However, there are plenty of things you can be doing through the fall and winter months to continue enjoying the pleasures of gardening.
Winte... continue reading...
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winter gardening August 15, 2009
College Survival Guide: Tips & Advice. College Tips is an online college survial guide for college students that contains advice, resources and tips on surviving college written by previous and current college students. New and future college students can follow other studen... continue reading...
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job,
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time managment,
time of your life May 19, 2008
Just think about it.
Way back when, you had to pay for your copy of Netscape, unless you met certain restrictions.
Without Netscape, you didn't surf the net. True, there were other browsers out there, but Netscape was the standard by which all others were judged.
Then, Microsoft took one of the... continue reading...
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traffic April 18, 2006
Man, I LOOOOOOOOOVE to cook! Around my house, I do 75% of the cooking. That's MY idea, not Briana's!
So it's natural that today's FamilyFirst site is cooking-related. It's called Wacky Recipes.
Now, don't worry. The recipes aren't what's wacky. What's wacky is that there are hundreds of free rec... continue reading...
Tags: beef bulgogi,
brownie mix,
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sandwiches,
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sun dried tomatoes,
sweet tooth,
veggies February 18, 2006
Who can resist trivia? Not me, that's for sure.
That's why today's FamilyFirst site is absolutetrivia.com, the home of Cool Quiz!
Cool Quiz is a fun daily service available to AvantGo.com subscribers that provides a set of trivia questions every day. I was a big fan until my Palm Pilot broke :... continue reading...
Tags: bad predictions,
bill gates,
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joints,
mysterious murder,
ornithologist,
palm pilot,
scrambled trivia,
subject examples,
trivia questions,
world conqueror,
world market April 7, 2005
I first visited this site several years ago, and was impressed enough by it to feature it as a Family First Site. Not only the subject matter intiguing, but also the way it was presented. It's rather unique way of conducting an online tour is one that hopefully will become more commonpl... continue reading...
Tags: andersonville prison,
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degree panoramas,
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spirit,
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works in progress February 20, 2005
Today's Family First Site is not, as the title may suggest, about electricity, or power supplies, or anything electronic oriented. It is a site that is there simply for fun. So settle back, get in a leisure mode, and have a great time.
The name of the site is Light Up Your Brain. It is t... continue reading...
Tags: brain,
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humor newsletter,
inspiration,
kids music,
latest internet technology,
music learning,
new songs,
special offers February 17, 2005
I can't remember where I read about this statistic, but it involved the amount of time that an average newscast spends on negative news stories. Stories that involve murder, kidnapping, and all the bad things that happen in our world these days. It is great to have found a site on the Internet that o... continue reading...
Tags: amazing gracie,
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Technology September 17, 2004
Growing up in the 60's, comic books were a mainstay of American culture. The golden age had passed, but they were still a great source of entertainment. I can remember waiting for the next shipment of them at our neighborhood store, so I could see what Spiderman or Sgt. Fury or Iron Man was up t... continue reading...
Tags: american culture,
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marvel comics,
marvel zone,
neighborhood store,
sgt fury,
spiderman,
sunday funnies,
x men,
youngsters July 1, 2004
Today marks the 141st anniversary of a battle that is synonymous with all that is bad about war. It is also one of the most famous battles of all times. Like Waterloo, Guadacanal, and Valley Forge, its history has transcended the war that it was fought in. I am refe... continue reading...
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