Posted by Duane On May - 26 - 20054 COMMENTS
To be more precise, Rufus Estes was America's first black chef with a cookbook. I thought it would be fitting to highlight some of the historical aspects of this holiday weekend. Memorial day of course is a time to remember those that died for this country(I will feature one or two of those brave people over the weekend), but it is also a time for family get-togethers and good-ol' conversation. So while ...More
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Ahh. I can still hear that sound to this day. I can remember as a child growing up in North Philadelphia being on the streets with my friends playing cars or something. All of a sudden we would all run like fools to our house begging our parents for some money. The lucky ones that were able to get money made it to the truck. Those of us who didn't ...More
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All those hours that 13-year-old Nathan Cornelius spent scouring atlases and immersing himself in the National Geographic magazine paid off Wednesday -- with a $25,000 check. The home-schooled Minnesota seventh-grader won the magazine's 17th annual geography bee with a dazzling display of knowledge about cities, countries, cultures and waterways around the globe. And in beating out 5 million other kids, including 54 other state and territorial champs, he put his little southwestern ...More
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New York City –(BLACK PR WIRE) You've heard of them: Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Lycos. These are the big boys of Internet search engines, but they aren't the only ones who've come to play. BigClique.com is the newest major search engine to hit the World Wide Web, and it's bound to make some waves. BigClique.com offers something refreshingly different, it is the first major search engine developed ...More
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