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Bestselling Book - Fifty Shades of Grey "Turns Readers 50 Shades of Red"

BURLINGTON, Vt. - You've heard of the Harry Potter series, and The Hunger Games, but what about Fifty Shades of Grey? It's another trilogy creating a similar stir, but this one is not for teens, not at all. In fact, many reports have dubbed it "mommy porn." Why? Because it's  …

"Huge Dinosaur Eggs" Found in Chechnya

A team of explorers in Chechnya have accidentally discovered what they say is the largest batch of fossilized dinosaur eggs in a mountainous area south of the republic. The cache, the first of its kind found in Chechnya, contains 40 or so eggs and is...

ATTN: All Newsvine Group Owners

I will keep this message short so that the word can be passed on.  As you may be aware, or not aware; of the problems being encoutered lately, there is information all group owners should know. I sent a report this weekend about missing avatar photos with the groups.   …

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Gleanings from the field

      Here are four varieties of narcissus that I brought in this morning. The warm to cold weather has taken its toll on them but these are still nice. The double pale yellows are sweetly scented and perfume the room when in larger bundles. It is cold again today …

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Weekend-Exposure: A Touch of My Mother's Homeland- Berlin, Germany

My mother was born June 2, 1928 in Berlin and my mother died July 1, 2011 from Alzheimers/Dementia. I have yet to understand the difference. I just know her strength and dignity was taken from her. I didn't think that anyone would care about the items that I have of my moth …

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Amateur Diggers Find "Emerald Jackpot" in North Carolina

Hiddenite, North Carolina - Jamie Hill thought he found a new way to make money by opening up his aging emerald mine to amateurs at $25 a head, and watched as a pair of couples quickly came away with tens of thousands of dollars worth of gems.

For Dare to Hope -- wire trees, furr babies and sunrises

Dare to Hope was asking about my wire trees so hopefully these pics will satisfy her curiosity :-)  Threw in a cute pic of Spot and Amber and this mornings "red" sunrise too.  One of the pics has a "triple" effect due to the reflection of the light through double pane  …

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Meghan McCain in April "Playboy Issue - Talks Booze, Sex, Politics"

Senator John McCain's daughter is making her Playboy debut this week. Meghan McCain has been selected as the men's magazine's 20 questions subject for the month of April

An Afternoon With Rembrandt: Rembrandt in America Exhibition, by Augur Well

  Yes, I really did spend an afternoon with Rembrandt. And it was time well spent. Here at our Cleveland Museum of Art, and our first-ever Rembrandt paintings exhibition, Rembrandt in America, presenting over fifty works gathered together from various American museum collec …

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Playing with the sunset

When I looked out my windows this evening, I noticed there was a lovely gold/amber filter to the sunset.  I decided to take some pictures of some of my favorite things in this kind of light.  The dawn and sunset light is my favorite to take pictures in - the mid d …

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