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BY RANDAL C. HILL
It was a magical moment for Elton John and Bernie Taupin when they fully realized the potential that had blossomed in their professional partnership. As Bernie once explained, “‘Your Song’ was one of the first songs we wrote when we really got locked into writing and when...
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By Randal C. Hill
It’s hard to imagine a million-selling 1970 song opening with the voices of a second-grade class singing,
Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world
Red and...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
"When I began collecting, I did it for the joy of it, and it was only as the collection grew and such great interest was evidenced by others that I came...
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By Susan Goldfein
March is Women’s History Month, or, as the more avid among us call it, Women’s HERstory Month. But history or HERstory, (tomato –tomahto), March honors the contributions of women to historical events, as well as...
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By Randal C. Hill
It was the “coolest” hangout in 1940s San Bernardino, with teenage cruisers filling the vast parking lot at McDonald’s drive-in on E Street every night. But such customers (usually adolescent boys with revving...
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By Nick Thomas As the story goes, Benjamin Franklin wasn’t a big fan of the bald eagle. According to a 2013 article on the smithsonian.com site, in a 1784 letter to his daughter, old Ben wrote rather...
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By Kathy Megyeri
In 1992, Maryland was the first state to mandate community service for high school graduation. The class of 1997, with 43,249 students, was the first to fulfill that requirement with a minimum of 75 hours...
