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Andrew Mack: Wrote "Heart of My Heart"

Andrew Mack: Wrote “Heart of My Heart”

July 25 is the birthday Irish-American vaudeville singer Andrew Mack (William Andrew McAloon, 1863-1931).

Born and raised in Boston, McAloon started out in minstrel** shows as a teenager under the name Andrew Williams, becoming particularly associated with the song “A Violet from Mother’s Grave”. He broke into vaudeville in 1892, just as the big circuits were being established.

In the 1890s, he…

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Belgian Style Comes to San Clemente - Lost Winds Brewing Company

Belgian Style Comes to San Clemente – Lost Winds Brewing Company

Lost Winds Brewing Company Becomes San Clemente’s 4th Brewery San Clemente just gained some Belgian style or, more accurately, an expanded choice of Belgian beer styles. Lost Winds Brewing Company recently opened in San Clemente, bringing a brewing focus on creating Belgian style beers. Founded by San Clemente locals Tim Thralls, Andrew Mack, and Tim Burke, Lost Winds Brewing is named after Lost…

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Why 2014 was the most peaceful year in world history...

"An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobane during a reported suicide car bombing by the Islamic State, as seen from the Turkey-Syria border, on Oct. 20, 2014. The small picture is very bad, but the big picture of violence around the world is about as good as it’s ever been.

"The only sound way to appraise the state of the world is to count. How many violent acts has the world seen compared with the number of opportunities? ... To be sure, adding up corpses and comparing the tallies across different times and places can seem callous, as if it minimized the tragedy of the victims in less violent decades and regions. But a quantitative mindset is in fact the morally enlightened one. It treats every human life as having equal value, rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic. And it holds out the hope that we might identify the causes of violence and thereby implement the measures that are most likely to reduce it. Let’s examine the major categories in turn." READ MORE

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 black and whities 7: sick in different ways

by Mandrew Fack on da creep.