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	<title>Couch Communiqué &#187; History</title>
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		<title>Say Hey!</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/05/06/say-hey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 23:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["willie mays"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Willie Mays&#8217; 79th birthday! He celebrated with members of the California State Senate and Assembly.


Images are courtesy of MLB.com
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		<title>Detroit and the Olympics</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/04/10/detroit-and-the-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never realized that the city of Detroit has bid many times to host the Olympic games. They bid on the Summer Olympics 7 times &#8211; in 1944, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972. Their best chance of securing the Olympics was in 1968. Detroit was selected over Los Angeles, by the USOC, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shorpy</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/04/09/shorpy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["detroit publishing company"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great website the other day. Shorpy is an online archive of thousands of  high-resolution photos from the 1850s to 1950s. The site was named for Shorpy Higginbotham who was a  teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
The pictures on the site are absolutely amazing. The sharpness of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can&#8217;t I Have It Right Away?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2009/02/22/cant-i-have-it-right-away/</link>
		<comments>http://voiland.org/blog/2009/02/22/cant-i-have-it-right-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["printing industry"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent many years in jobs related to the printing industry. I came across this poem, and what it says is as true today as it was when written in 1904.
“CAN&#8217;T I HAVE IT RIGHT AWAY?”
By Strickland W. Gillilan
I sat beside the estimator&#8217;s desk one afternoon—
He hadn&#8217;t had a smell of lunch, but said he&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Washington&#8217;s House</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/07/04/george-washingtons-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["ferry farm"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["george washington"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["mount vernon"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remains of the house where George Washington was raised have been located and excavated by archeologists at Ferry Farm, just across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Virginia. The archeologists have been working on the site for seven years and confirm finding the foundation and cellars. Far from being the rustic cottage of common perception, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Frank Greeting Card</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/04/24/anne-frank-greeting-card/</link>
		<comments>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/04/24/anne-frank-greeting-card/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A greeting card sent by Anne Frank in 1937 has been found in a Dutch antiques shop.  The card was sent to one of her best friends, Samme Ledermann. A school teacher named Paul van den Heuvel came across the card while looking through a box in his father&#8217;s shop in Naarden, near Amsterdam. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Eyes</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/02/07/blue-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/02/07/blue-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["blue eyes"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["eye color"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a Danish researcher, if you have blue eyes, you&#8217;re related to a common ancestor.  He found that every blue-eyed person descended from one person whose genes mutated some 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before that, everyone had brown eyes. Geneticist Hans Eiberg says that blue eyes occur when the human default &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Futurliner and the &#8220;Parade of Progress&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/02/01/futurliner-and-the-parade-of-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/02/01/futurliner-and-the-parade-of-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Futurliner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parade of Progress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I came across a posting on Autoblog about a 1939 GM Futurliner that is up for sale on eBay.  I remember seeing one of these once but, for the life of me, I can&#8217;t remember where it was!
So, what is a Futurliner?
Futurliners are a group of 12 stylized buses designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The (Detroit) Auto Show</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/01/27/the-detroit-auto-show/</link>
		<comments>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/01/27/the-detroit-auto-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automobiles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We went to the auto show in Detroit today.  The very first Detroit Auto Show was held in 1899 at the Light Guard Armory.  It was organized by the Tri-State Sportsman&#8217;s and Automobile Association.  This first show featured major attractions of big-game trophies bagged in Africa and an exhibit of fishing tackle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Low bridge, everybody down&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/01/14/low-bridge-everybody-down/</link>
		<comments>http://voiland.org/blog/2008/01/14/low-bridge-everybody-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["bruce springsteen"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["erie canal"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["family history"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["lake erie"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 2006, Bruce Springsteen released We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a collection of songs popularized by the folk artist Pete Seeger.  My favorite song on the album is Erie Canal.  Erie Canal is one of those songs that I, and a lot of kids, grew up singing.  But, I never [...]]]></description>
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