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My Favorite Paranormal Site: The Shadowlands

Posted by Chris Parizo on Tue, Jan 12, 2010

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Due to the reemergence of students filtering back into my high school classroom — new unit plans, seating charts and the such, my post this week will be short and sweet. That said, I wanted to introduce readers to one of my all-time favorite paranormal websites circling the tubes: Shadowlands. The website is a typical [...]

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Indiana Jones and the Shipwrecked Whiskey

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Wed, Nov 18, 2009

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No, it’s not the sequel to that Crystal Skull debacle. It’s a very real “adventure” being undertaken by beverage company Whyte & Mackay to rescue two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey lost to the icy Antarctic back in 1909. The booze was the property of British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who had been on [...]

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The Hauntings of Auschwitz and Other Concentration Camps

Posted by Chris Parizo on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

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This summer, my wife was transferred to her company’s Munich branch and I, being the dutiful, occupationally-challenged high school teacher on my first summer vacation, followed her. The German people are amazing, their way of life makes sense, social rules and norms are rational and seem designed to decrease conflicts between its people. The food [...]

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Busy, Busy, Busy!

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, Sep 21, 2009

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This is not a Polaroid of me. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks; barely time to catch my breath before I’m off to the next chore, challenge or adventure. Last Thursday, I got back from an intensive four-day leadership retreat that started off bizarre and frankly kind of lame, but then turned into one of the [...]

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Travel FAIL

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Wed, Jul 15, 2009

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Actually, there is no FAIL, unless you consider the speeding ticket I got in Virginia on the way from DC to Asheville, NC. My first in twenty years! (To be fair, I dint drive for most of one of those decades.) I’m glad I got yesterday’s post off my chest; I’m feeling better now. Here’s some [...]

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