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		<title>How Opa-locka got its name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opa-locka is a small city in the Miami metropolitan area of south Florida. Its unusal name is supposed to have an Indian or &#8220;Native American&#8221; origin. But there is no documentation for the name before about 1926. That&#8217;s when the &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/opa-locka/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2304&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viola da gamba concert: Live from Moravia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is it that I never heard of Petr Wagner, the Czech viol player in this video? This is the best concert I&#8217;ve seen online in a very long time. Gottfried Finger (c1660-1730) was a Moravian composer and viol player &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/viola-da-gamba-concert/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2251&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Joels and their Islamic Antichrist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heard the one about the Islamic Antichrist? That&#8217;s the latest story seeking to grant American Christians a license to hate in the name of love. Muslims, the story goes, are willing dupes of Satan, anxiously waiting for the arrival of &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/the-joels/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2221&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The American wakeup call</title>
		<link>http://alarob.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-american-wakeup-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cousin is a talented lawyer in the ATL. He came to visit this weekend with his wife and two small children. One of the many things we talked about was housing. My cousin and his wife are renters. This &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-american-wakeup-call/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2167&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Bastard out of Carolina (a novel)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just reviewed this novel for LibraryThing. Five stars. I am in awe of this book. It was given to me but sat on my shelf for years, through at least one house move, until I decided this month that &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/bastard-out-of-carolina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2149&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English from the treetops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a 400-year-old verse that I consider ideal for demonstrating change in the English language. It’s “The lowest trees have tops,” by a nobody called Edward Dyer. As poetry, it operates at about the level of forgettable pop music. It’s &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/english-from-the-treetops/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2124&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACT for America has an agenda for Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACT for America, an activist group opposing “radical Islam,”1 is pushing a ten-point agenda for the 112th Congress. Let’s take a look. 1. Banning shariah: “Reaffirm the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land, and oppose the application &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/act-for-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2118&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot sleep, I cannot eat. I’m scared to walk to the bathroom because I’m afraid they will hunt me down.… I’m not the same. — An American citizen trapped in Kuwait Here is my letter: Sir, please intervene to &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/letter-to-the-white-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2116&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t call me “an” historian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I object to using the determiner an instead of a in front of the word historian. It seems pretentious and unnatural. I believe almost nobody says “an historian,” yet I read it all the time. I’ll grant that some English &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/not-an-historian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2101&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A list of history blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something called History Masters just published a Top 50 list of blogs about American history. [link] I only knew about roughly one-tenth of them. A notable gap in the list is the excellent Civil War Memory. It definitely belongs among &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/a-list-of-history-blogs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4013326&#038;post=2100&#038;subd=alarob&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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