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"Tight" and "Taut" in Sailing ...
(John Heelan, -UK, 03/19/14 6:05 am)
Cameron Sawyer will correct me if needed, but I seem to remember from my sailing school training--as as youth--that the mainsail and jib "sheets" (i.e. ropes) had to be kept "tight"
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RH and Soviet Union; Gus Hall at Stanford ...
(David Pike, -France, 03/18/14 9:54 am)
Briefly, in reply to David Fleischer's questions of March 18:
--Gus Hall apparently visited Stanford more than once. It was in 1963 that I met him. He had wit. He told me that some
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International Felt and the Huycks ...
(David Fleischer, Brazil, 03/18/14 7:17 am)
I would like to ask Ms. Mary Hilton Huyck a question about her husband's surname.
Is he any relation to the Huyck family that owned a felt factory in Rensselaer, NY as of the 1940s
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St Patrick's Day ...
(John Heelan, -UK, 03/17/14 8:59 pm)
On this St Patrick's day, try being a Brit in Boston (or even worse, Merrimack, New Hampshire) on St. Patrick's Night! I used to adopt my Gaelic name, imitate my father's Waterford accent
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St Patrick's Day ...
(John Heelan, -UK, 03/17/14 8:59 pm)
On this St Patrick's day, try being a Brit in Boston (or even worse, Merrimack, New Hampshire) o
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