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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
The Hittites were once a powerful kingdom that, at its peak around 1300 BCE, dominated Anatolia (now Turkey) and even reached as far south as Aleppo (now in modern Syria); they fought a major battle with the Egyptians, led by Ramesses the Great, at Kadesh in 1274
I have a thing about thing. It is a really interesting word, with a surprising history.
Saturday’s No Kings Protests has already listed 50 locations in New Hampshire. Please send any additions or corrections to: arnie.alpert@indepthnh.org.
In my youth, my sisters and I would ride our horses up over Lit’s Mountain behind our home, ending the trip with a swim – on the horses – in the Pemigewasset River.
While I was boarding my flight from San Francisco to Boston last week, I waited in line with a woman who was holding not one but TWO cats in carriers.
You have probably noticed that in recent years the words fortunate and fortuitous have converged in meaning. “The timing of the new mortgage rate could not have been more fortuitous.” “How fortuitous that we should meet today!”
The Boston Red Sox are a professional sports team, so nothing they do matters at all. Yet they have either been making me happy or breaking my heart since I was five years old.
Familiarity is comfortable. Not a lot of thinking has to happen. However, sometimes it is good to look at old water with “New Eyes.”
The majority of city and town names in New Hampshire come from British placenames (mainly English), but many of these placenames have mysterious origins.
