Fall Of The Iron Curtain Opened Borders To Lonely Hearts
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 20, 2008
The fall of the Iron Curtain started a whole new source of mail order brides seeking a Western husband.
The number of Russian brides participating in the mail order business was rather large.
With the introduction of the Internet in the 1990s, the mail-order bride system made introductions faster and more time-efficient.
But more importantly, it increased the [...]
BIAW campaign exploits old state divisions
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 14, 2008
WITH HIS PROPENSITY for shooting from the lip, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona once opined that the United States would be better off were the Eastern Seaboard cut off and floated out to sea.
In 1964, with Goldwater the Republican presidential nominee, Democrats gleefully aired a TV shot showing a saw sticking up through a map [...]
PMT curtain call after 18 years
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on June 11, 2008
The Pratt Music Theatre Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the corporation no later than June 30, ending an 18-year run of live theater in the Pratt community.
“This decision has not been reached easily and not without much soul searching and prayerful consideration,†according to a June 3 letter to “PMT friends†from the [...]
Woman Learned Lessons In 1947 Disaster
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 17, 2008
Curt Hennig I am writing about my survival of the 1947 Texas City Disaster so that others who read it could learn from my experience.
Reading the newspaper about a man who had survived Japan’s atomic blast helped me survive the Texas City Disaster.
He said when he saw the atomic “mushroom shape†in the distance, knowing [...]