By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — I walked into the exhibit at the New Americans Museum at Liberty Station with no intention of writing a story. I was just there as a guest at the opening reception of Project Vision. However, the exhibit moved me so much that I changed my mind. As an ESL teacher
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International, Middle East, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and FoodA political action committee has been convened by a group of prominent Republicans staffers to organize GOP support for the Libertarian presidential ticket of Gary Johnson. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to multiple reports, is actively looking to recruit establishment Republicans primed to defect and support her nomination. Meg Whitman, a major GOP donor and former
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International, Mark D. Zimmerman, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireLAUSANNE, Switzerland, Aug. 6, 2016 – Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, was a dreamer who revived the Olympic Games in 1896. Though it was an idealistic concept to unite the countries of the world through athletic competition, the baron believed the games should encompass three things: athleticism, art and culture. Baron de Coubertin (Wikipedia)
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Middle East, Travel and FoodLONDON — In 1887, Emil Berliner changed our lives for the better. The Jewish Berliner — who later emigrated from Germany to the United States — invented the gramophone, finally granting popular music the technology on which to disseminate the sounds of the street and the stage. His story is told in the London Jewish
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