Author: Greg’s Business History
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Seeing the Family Graveyard on Google Maps
Half of my ancestry is from a very rural county in the Appalachian Mountains in western Virginia. They got to Virginia well before the Revolution, after landing in Philadelphia in the 1730s. They turnedleft at the Great Valley, which runs southeasterly from Pennsylvania through Virginia and on into Carolina and Tennessee. They were Germans who…
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Hello World
I am posting again For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Topics For Rest Of The Week Seeing the Family Graveyard on Google Maps Prohibitionist with a Hatchet: Carry Nation, Revised Deep knowledge, every day.Like, comment and follow : Greg’s Business History.Happy Reading.Thanks
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Sorry About That…
It’s been months and months since anything got posted on the site. We’ll do better and startposting things we think followers will be interested in reading. My partner Barb has been trying to get me to start posting again. I’ve been going off on a tangent ghost writing eBooks to make some cash. It’s not…
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Invasions of Florida, Take 1
Florida has had a few invasions by armies, including the British, Spanish and Yankees during the Civil War, and more recently, we get invaded by half a million Canadians who spend the winter here. But this is about another kind of invasion of Florida, by invasive species from elsewhere in the world. Florida is a…
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Animals That Spit at You
There was a time when, in the American West at least, thatbars and saloons had what were called spittoons, containers on the floor for patrons to spit into. Chewing tobacco was widespread then, a century and more ago. People who chewed tobacco, mostly men, chewed and spit. The spittoons were preferable to a slimy brown floor. That…
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I am posting again …… When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out. Topics for the week Animals That Spit at You….Nature Invasions of Florida, Take 1….Oddities Deep knowledge, every day.Like, comment and follow : Greg’s Business…