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Έγινε μέλος την περίοδο Ιούνιος 2007

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  1. 24 Μαΐ

    Thanks for playing with us. Today's fortunes came from Messing Around in Quotes. Have a great weekend!

  2. 23 Μαΐ

    “It was the garden that did it - and Mary and Dickon and the creatures - and the Magic.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  3. 21 Μαΐ

    "Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so." - Alexander Pope, 'Major Works' Alexander Pope was born in 1688.

  4. 20 Μαΐ

    A new force of nature is so rapidly transforming out planet that many scientists believe that Earth has entered a new phase in it's history - the Anthropocene.

  5. 20 Μαΐ

    "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." - John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address at St Andrew's (1867) John Stuart Mill, English economist and philosopher, was born in 1806.

  6. 18 Μαΐ

    Food serves an important part of most religious celebrations. Learn more about the relationship between food and religion in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

  7. 18 Μαΐ

    that the phrase 'baker's dozen', denoting a cluster of 13 items, likely arose from the practice of bakers giving extra loaves to “hucksters”, that is, to peddlers who sold the bread in the street?

  8. 17 Μαΐ

    Thank you for playing ! Today's fortunes come from Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

  9. 17 Μαΐ

    "Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.” - Marmee March from Louisa May Alcott's, 'Little Women'

  10. 16 Μαΐ

    Despite spending more money on health than people anywhere else, Americans live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries. In 'Well', explores what Americans get wrong when discussing health.

  11. 13 Μαΐ

    Anne of Green Gables is the most popular and enduring of a host of similar girls’ stories published in the United States and Canada in the first years of the 20th century, and serves as a reminder that there is goodness in every day.

  12. 12 Μαΐ

    Florence Nightingale, the British nurse and reformer of Army Medical Services, was born in 1820. Discover more about the life of this enigmatic figure via .

  13. 10 Μαΐ

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  14. 10 Μαΐ

    Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet, putting a disproportionate pressure on mothers to provide the ideal meal for their family. To find a solution, we need to look beyond the kitchen.

  15. 7 Μαΐ

    "She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish." - "The Seeress's Prophecy" in The Poetic Edda

  16. 3 Μαΐ

    Thank you for playing ! Today's fortunes come from Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations.

  17. 3 Μαΐ

    What's on your reading list this weekend?

  18. 1 Μαΐ

    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  19. 28 Απρ

    Terry Pratchett, the author of the fantasy Discworld novels was born in 1948.

  20. 26 Απρ

    Join Peter Filkins for a reading and book signing of his "vivid" and "utterly engrossing" biography of one of the first writers on the Holocaust, H. G. Adler. , Chicago, IL, on Saturday, April 27, at 3pm CST.

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