All posts by onthehouse
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Buzz OFF my Blouse
The bikini bathing suit was introduced in 1946 as specialty summer wear for the beach. Today you’ll learn that there are other new clothes just introduced that are also appealing although a bit less revealing! Indeed, the...
- Posted April 25, 2014
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CAN Can Keep You Safe
The lessons learned from 9/11 have made recovering from a natural disaster easier. Today, you’ll learn how one call is all it takes to get all the help you need underway! Recently, seven major disaster relief organizations...
- Posted April 25, 2014
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Answering Machine Do’s and Don’ts
The telephone was invented on March 10, 1876, and the first telephone-answering machine was introduced in 1950. How did we ever survive 74 years without hearing “Hello you’ve reached Worldwide Widgets”? Today, we’re offering some basic dos...
- Posted April 25, 2014
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Images in Tile To Give You a Smile
Silent film star, Charlie Chaplin, was born in 1889. He and others ushered in movies as we know them today. Are you a fan of the silver screen? Always wanted to be up there and seen? Well, this could...
- Posted April 25, 2014
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Keeping Your Chain Untangled
When you put your fine gold and silver neck chains away gently and with great care, do the jewelry goblin and neck-chain monster get in and cause a twisted, tangled, knotted mess? Then, the next time you’re...
- Posted April 25, 2014
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Tile Style
Looking for the latest in floor and wall tile? For walls, consider glass tiles…fluid, with great depth and vibrant colors. Metal is also an eye-catching finish, with both gleaming and subtle “soft” rich surfacing, and high-relief “sculptured”...
- Posted April 23, 2014
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Flushing the Odor Down the Drain
Candice Bergen played Murphy Brown, host of “FYI,” a hard-hitting, fact-finding, news magazine show. She was intelligent about some things yet sometimes clueless about others — like the morning she woke up and said: “What’s that smell?”...
- Posted April 23, 2014
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Inspect Your Roof Before It’s Too Late!
In 1907 the first Zigfield Follies were performed on a theater roof. Fortunately the roof was in good shape. How’s yours? Is it ready for anything? If you’re not sure, it’s time to inspect. If you hate heights,...
- Posted April 23, 2014
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Site For Home Security
The last episode of “MASH” aired in 1983, after 255 episodes that spanned 11 years. Hawkeye, Hotlips, Radar and Klinger thought and talked about home and schemed to get back there as soon as possible. But life...
- Posted April 22, 2014
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Space: The Final (Kitchen) Frontier
America made its first successful launch into space in 1958 — space, the final frontier. With Explorer One in orbit, a new era began. Today, space still is the quest, and it’s also the trend for kitchen...
- Posted April 22, 2014