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Surviving in a bad economy is not easy. Do you find yourself living paycheck to paycheck? Do you notice at the grocery store that the prices have gone up? That isn’t the only thing that has gone up. Our taxes went up on almost everything, the utility bills and gasoline. Those are just a few of the struggles trying to survive during a bad economy. I have been doing some research and found the top ten money saving things to do during these hard times. 1. Request interest rate/fee...

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Where can we see the northern lights? The Northern Lights, as the name suggests, are especially related to the polar regions. They occur most frequently in a belt of radius 2500 km centered on the magnetic north pole. This so-called auroral zone extends over northern Scandinavia, Island, the southern tip of Greenland and continuing over northern Canada, Alaska and along the northern coast of Siberia. The coasts of the Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark lay where occurrence is greatest, making northern Norway, due to its ease of access...

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Mrs. John B. Dodd, of Washington, first proposed the idea of a “father’s day” in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife (Mrs. Dodd’s mother) died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father...

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