Kenmare ND - Upside Down Under
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Upside Down Under
By Marvin Baker, a new weekly column in The Kenmare News
My favorite Martian...
If you get a chance to read a copy of the November 2016 edition of National Geographic, there is a fascinating expose in it about sending humans to Mars.
Posted 1/31/17 (Tue) read more »
Strange names worth a laugh...
Have you ever met somebody with a strange name that you just can’t get out of your head?
Posted 1/24/17 (Tue) read more »
The man who never dies...
Sometimes we run across information that is difficult to believe and nearly impossible to understand.
Posted 1/17/17 (Tue) read more »
An Army buddy reunited...
It must have been about six or seven years ago. I had already been transferred to Camp Grafton for my National Guard job and the Army was in the process of upgrading its email system.
Posted 1/10/17 (Tue) read more »
The 'weird' Wagner family
When I was growing up in Hazelton my friends and I spent a lot of time playing baseball because there just wasn’t anything else to do in a small town except maybe harass the grocery store owner.
Posted 1/03/17 (Tue) read more »
A memorable Christmas...
This Christmas marks 10 years since the 129th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment of the North Dakota National Guard was on active duty and away from home.
Posted 12/20/16 (Tue) read more »
Proposition 65 very informative...
Several years ago I had a morbid curiosity to find a harmful link between malathion and wheat and began researching.
Posted 12/13/16 (Tue) read more »
An unforgettable date in American history...
Today is a grim date in American history. It should be noted that of all the conflicts the United States has fought in its 240-year history, Dec. 7, 1941 is the one day that personifies an entire war in which 417,000 Americans lost their lives.
Posted 12/07/16 (Wed) read more »
Beware of Chromium 6
I recently watched an episode of the afternoon TV show “The Doctors.” They had a guest who was talking about Chromium 6 in the nation’s water supply.
Posted 11/29/16 (Tue) read more »
Dairy farms getting milked dry
In 1934 there were more dairy cows in North Dakota than people. A total of 700,000 has slowly but steadily dwindled to about 15,000 today, the equivalent population of Jamestown.
Posted 11/22/16 (Tue) read more »