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BY RANDAL C. HILL
Miniskirts were not born, as many of us believe, during the UK youthquake (as it was called) of the frenzied Sixties. Over the years, archeologists have unearthed short-skirted European figurines created between 5400 and 4700 BC. Some ancient Egyptian frescos have depicted female acrobats...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
Not since I saw former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s exhibit at the Smithsonian and read her book “Read My Pins,” where she wore her serpent pin on more than one diplomatic mission, have I been...
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By Randal C. Hill
Though he was never much more than a rock ‘n’ roll footnote, Hank Ballard (1927 – 2003) briefly cracked the 1954 Billboard pop charts as the leader of the Midnighters by offering up...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
“But when an assassin’s bullets shattered the dream, she showed the world that there was unimagined strength beneath the silk.” HUGH SIDEY, LIFE MAGAZINE
With help from White House Social Secretary...
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By Rebecca Fending
Modern day Halloween holds so much history, but mainly European. From trick-or-treating to the timing of the holiday itself, October 31 is all about celebrating harvest with spooky activities. But, just south of the...
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By Michael B. Wright
For quite some time, I have had this theory that if you could list all of the magazines that a person has read regularly from childhood and on, you could see how that person developed into the kind of person they have ultimately become.
As an example, here is...
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By Randal C. Hill
In the now-fabled summer of 1967, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood temporarily morphed into a community of societal dropouts, college students, teenage runaways, vagrants and hustlers. Often clad in Army surplus and thrift-store outfits,...
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By Lauren Reeves
These days, Valentine’s Day is often touted as a scheme cooked up by greeting card companies. And although Hallmark, florists and chocolate candy companies do exceptionally well around this time of year, the celebration...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
Tour any model home, and you’ll find popcorn in front of the TV or movie screen, cocktails on the end tables, desserts on trays in the dining room and a...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
It was a mammoth undertaking for 95 scholars, researchers and staffers to cull through the entire Smithsonian’s collection of artifacts to choose 280 objects and then write stories that told the history of our nation’s...
