History and My Story

Mary Lou Buell

Entries from June 2008

Enjoy the Summer!!!

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Not sure what will happen to this blog next year—but this is probably the least of the uncertain things about “next year.”  All the teachers keep saying how this was the “year from hell” because of the contract issue, the lack of support from town council and school committee, the firing of a principal and [...]

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For Those of You With Facebook…

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Wen Jiabao, the Premier of China, has a Facebook page…might be an interesting thing to check out.
Oh, and since I was on Facebook it got me thinking about MySpace and Facebook in China…so I dug around a little. Apparantly they have censored versions that are allowed, but Word Press who runs this site decided [...]

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History Reference? You Decide.

June 4th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Intriguing video from The Last Shadow Puppets (really Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys and some other guy) submitted for our review by Andrew Hunt. The song is called The Age of the Understatement and since most things in history seem to be overstated (Saddam Hussein’s pretending to have all the WMD and misleading [...]

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