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Unveiling the Unending Story of the Fight For Freedom From the Underground Railroad Freedom Center

By: Arthur Smith | 2010-03-30 | Reference & Education
The grand opening celebration of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, on Monday, August 23 2004 significantly coinciding with the United Nations' annual International Day of Commemoration for the Abolition of Slavery was itself a landmark event in the history of the struggles for freedom worldwide. The festivities to mark the occasion were most significant in not only recognizing the abolition of slavery in the past, but also for today's struggle to free over 27 million people currently enslaved all around the world. read more

Health - Weight Loss Myths and Realities

By: Gordon Townsend | 2010-04-03 | Weight Loss
Weight loss is a $100 Billion industry and everybody wants a piece of it - doctors, drug companies, nutritionists, authors, supplement companies, food companies, gyms, exercise equipment. Where do you go and who do listen to? How do maintain the body style & shape that you feel is right for you? read more

Life Coaching - Myth Or Reality?

By: Orlando Piedrahita | 2010-03-30 | Coaching
Is life coaching effective for getting my life on track? There's a general misconception that life coaching is a form of therapy and that like it's far cousin one has to be going through emotional distress to even consider seeking out a coach. read more

Economy: Could This Fictitious Story Become Reality?

By: Profit Confidential | 2011-07-07 | Stock Market
Michael tells you a story about the fictitious future of the world economy and its reserve currency. Could it really happen? read more

Underground Life in Las Vegas

By: Mary Rose | 2011-01-13 | Current Affairs
Las Vegas, which is in the seat of Clark County, is considered the resort of fine dining, and shopping in the world. Thanks to a number of entertainments and resorts, Las Vegas is famous as the “Entertainment Capital of the World”, “Capital of Second Chances” or “Sin City”. However, it is the “Entertainment Capital of the World” which hides a hard living of people under the “Sin City's” Underground Tunnels. Las Vegas journalist Matthew O' Brian explored the tunnels and started writing about the hidden communities five years ago. The great documentary “Beneath The Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas” (published in 2007) is really a flood brain for everybody about the heavy descriptive feeling of being in the tunnel. A sad reality that deep underneath Vegas’s glittering lights, there is a community of people living in such defunct subway tunnels. Steven Dommermuth, one of the inhabitant and former front-desk employee, said about the hard living, “We use read more

The Railroad Sights of Gallitzin, Pennsylvania

By: Robert G Waldvogel | 2011-07-14 | Destinations
This article discusses the important railroad history of Gallitizin, Pennsylvania, and then describes the individual sights, such as the Gallitzin Tunnels Park and Museum and the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, where they can be experienced. read more

How To Become Safe And Secure And Not A Wage Slave?

By: Nang Quach | 2011-01-18 | Careers
Here's a fact for you: Most people think having a job is the safe and secure financial option. But... I think they're dead wrong. read more

Truth about Building Muscle – 5 Myths Destroyed

By: Balu Muscle | 2011-06-12 | Recreation & Sports
We have all heard all kind of stories on how to build muscle and a lot of people believe that they are the truth about building muscle. There are so many myths that either makes you afraid of working out to start with or makes you waste your time on something that will provide little or no results. We will in this article look at some of the myths in the bodybuilding community and uncover the truth about building muscle. read more

Overcoming Myths About Men

By: Eddie Smith | 2010-09-06 | Advice
Have you ever found yourself making the same mistake over and over simply because you didn't know any better at the time? read more

6 Internet Marketing Myths

By: Jason | 2010-10-16 | Internet Marketing
Every day thousands of people go online to make money but most of them fail miserably because they either truly believe one of the 6 Internet Marketing Myths or or all of them. You can read them below and discover the grain of salt in all of them. read more

Pregnancy Myths, Are They Accurate

By: Adam Carson | 2010-10-26 | Home & Family
It is the oddest thing in the world, individuals who you have recognized forever and are extremely intelligent, listen to you are expecting and started telling you about pregnancy old-wives tales. I am usually astonished at what individuals believe and more amazed in the reality they pass these myths as fact to expecting women. So as a expecting woman if someone starts telling you some far-fetched factor to see what the gender of one's infant is going to be, politely decline and tell ... read more

10 Career Change Myths

By: sumeet | 2010-12-09 | Recruitment
If you dream about having a different career, but don't act on that dream, you may be operating under the assumption of a career myth. In this article, I expose 10 myths, sayings you've heard before that simply are not true. Let's explore them. read more

5 Myths About Working at a Big 4 Accounting Firm

By: Chook Dalin | 2010-04-03 | Accounting
The CA Designation has been one of the most promoted designations to top prospect students over Canada. Recruiters talk about how great working at a Big 4 Accounting firm is. Here are 5 myths broken down. read more

Reality Revised - How to Change the Past

By: Otto King | 2010-04-04 | Politics
Ministry of Truth employee Winston Smith, in Orwell's prophetic 1984, spends his time altering reality. His job is to change or eliminate all documented evidence about certain people and events - to the extent that all memory about them is completely erased. The truth, for all practical purposes, never existed. The past is thereby controlled, as is the future. Orwell created an imaginary, nightmare world of fascinating fiction. Couldn't happen here, of course. Or could it? Newsflash - It could indeed. read more

Building Trust, Your Story is Marketing Magic!

By: Lisa Bloom | 2010-11-30 | Business
We are all storytellers. We define our reality by the stories we tell. Stories are all true, we make them true by the telling. In that truth we can build trust and do marketing magic! read more