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Growing up Poor but Happy
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend I grew up very poor but did not know it at the time because everyone who lived around me was poor also. There was no TV, so I was ignorant of how the rich lived. Neither did I know a rich person until I was grown. My parents moved into a 3-room bungalow when I was five years old, an old farmhouse that had been taken into the city limits. It still had a large old barn with a hayloft. The street was dirt,…
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Has Science Proved that the Bible is Untrue?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend Part-2-The Scientific accuracy of the Bible Written by Jimmie Burroughs I was at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts last summer sitting on a bench on the boardwalk, which ran along the Atlantic Ocean. Plymouth Harbor was before me. A full size replica of the Pinta Maria was docked to my right. I could imagine those early pilgrims as they sailed into…
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Has Honor Now Become Old Fashioned and Obsolete in America?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend Nathan Hale was a young man of high honor and just 21 years of age when he volunteered for the extremely dangerous job of intelligence gathering for the Continental Army during the American Revolution War. He was later captured by the British and condemned to death by hanging. When asked if he had any last words, he replied, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” Hale is honored as one of America’s great heroes; in 1985, he…