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Battle of Point Pleasant

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October 10, 1774 By Cecilia Fábos-Becker Battle of Point Pleasant The French and Indian War, aka The Seven Years War, really started in 1754, and was concluded by a treaty… Read more

Semiquincentennial Grants

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US National Park Service is Accepting Applications By Cecilia Fábos-Becker American Independence Semiquincentennial We recently learned about the planned commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution. Back in… Read more

Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?

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ADL’s Greenblatt says ‘Yes’ by Tony Becker 2023-12-11 Jonathan Greenblatt More than one year ago, in May of 2022, the New Yorker Magazine published an interview by Isaac Chotiner, a… Read more

Apple adds RCS to iOS (finally)

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Mobile OS Market Share 2009 – 2023 When Apple Computer, Inc. was founded by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on April 1, 1976 its stated goal was to… Read more

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland This past week, we learned about an important new resource for family history researchers whose ancestors came from Ireland as Irish, or passed through Ireland… Read more

Taking Flight Album Release Concerts

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Amelia Hogan Band Taking Flight Album Release Concerts Album Launch Concerts Friday, February 24th, 8:15 PM Lost Church, Santa Rosa, CA, Details Sunday, February 26th, 6:00 PM Casements Bar, San… Read more

Sean Murphy – Irish History Online

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Sean Murphy Weekly on 4 consecutive Thursdays Each Month, Irish historian Sean Murphy presents a pair of four-week live Zoom course on Thursdays at 3:00 PM PST (6 PM Eastern… Read more

Why I Dropped Out of the Facebook group ‘DNA Detectives’

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(and I won’t return) First a few facts. I chose to leave this Facebook group. The group did not drop me, nor had I yet been ‘suspended.’ I decided to… Read more

Queen Elizabeth II Dead

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Long live King Charles III Elizabeth II Most of our readers probably know by now that Queen Elizabeth II, of the UK, passed from this life to the next on… Read more

America’s Other Irish Documentary

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A Challenge from the Irish Government to American Scots especially, and Scots-Irish An International Documentary Association Project International Documentary Ass’n A bit over 2 weeks ago, my husband and I… Read more