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President #24 - Grover Cleveland [2nd term] Dollar
Today the Grover Cleveland [2nd term] Presidential dollar was released.
Don't bother asking at your local bank -- you can only get them from the U.S. Mint, or from your friendly local coin dealer.
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Update on the Panasonic DMR-ES20 DVD recorder
Yesterday I unpacked my faithful ES20 DVD recorder after moving back to Colorado, and it was unable to power up. The display keeps scrolling " oooooo" which means that it is in recovery mode ( Read more... ) -
Alma 36: From this week's reading for Sunday School
Chapter 36 of Alma in the Book of Mormon is a great example of the ancient literary form of Chiasmus.
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22nd President: Grover Cleveland (1st term)
Grover Cleveland--the first Democrat elected after the Civil War--is the only president to be honored on TWO different coins in this series, because he served two non-consecutive terms.
He also appeared on the one-thousand dollar bill, which is no longer in circulation. (Bills over $100 were discontinued and removed from circulation in 1969.)
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Travails of the Tablet
A couple of months ago I purchased a Sylvania SYNET7LP-DS for $90 at Big Lots.
Perhaps I was envious of my wife, who likes to read e-books on her Kindle. And I have a large collection of ebooks in pdf format. So I just wanted a portable ebook reader.
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