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Michael Loynd
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Pat-O-Lanterns: How The Irish Invented Halloween
Before candy, costumes, pumpkins, and haunted houses, don’t forget the most essential of all Halloween decorations—carved out turnips. Yes, that’s right, turnips. Those purple, hollowless vegetables that were the original jack-o-lanterns. It’s an old Irish tradition in our family, stemming back to the ancient Celts who created this most festive of holidays. It arose from the Celtic fire festival c
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The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold
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All Things Irish
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“When Annetts reflected on the childhood leg braces that drove her to try swimming, she said, "My early physical misfortune has turned out to be the greatest blessing that could have come to me. Without it I should have missed the grim struggke upward and the reward that waited at the end of it all.”
― The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold
― The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold
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“Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.”
― The Future of an Illusion
― The Future of an Illusion
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.”
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Thanks, Andy! You too. Hope you get to enjoy All Things Irish! Many good wishes, Michael
And have a great St. Patrick's Day!