Citi Turns 200: Training graduates for careers overseas

Source: Citi Blogs

Despite war on the Continent, bankers see future business prospects Acknowledging the continuing need for employees with commercial training along British and German lines for its expanding overseas network, National City Bank turned to the unive ...
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What's missing from schools

Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal

Children lost out when the system removed diagramming, geography, penmanship and physical education. And schools should teach students how to play chess. Schools should have kept all those classes and spent less time worrying about what's ...
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Now That School’s Out For Summer: 5 Ways to Keep Your Child Brain Active

Source: The Cubicle Chick

It’s official. My Chicklet is now out of school for the summer. I have all sorts of things planned to keep her busy during the summertime. She will be attending summer school for half days beginning in June. And after that, she will be tra ...
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heARTbeat: Annie Voight Cuts Words From Paper

Source: EcoSalon

ColumnPoets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. -Jean Cocteau Oakland, California artist, Annie Voight says she watches too much TV, but from her work, one could ass ...
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What Is This? [What Is This]

Source: Gizmodo

Oakland-based artist Annie Vought carves paper-and-ink notes of correspondence into intricate sheets of lace-like lettering. Focussing on the text, structure, and emotion of the letter, she removes every trace of white space, ...
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NEWS: New Goods for Japanese Club Nintendo Members

Source: Nintendo World Report

Get your penmanship on with these cool new notebooks! Two new Nintendo-themed notebooks are available for Club Nintendo members in Japan starting today. The notebooks feature designs from the Mario series, with one of the notebooks b ...
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The Gene Pull, Genealogy, Family Tree, Research, Tracing Family ...

Source: AARP The Magazine

We were all grownups this time. At the genealogy library in Alexandria, Louisiana—housed in the town's old Carnegie library building—there were nothing but adults, along with several thousand microfilms and reference books. After a fe ...
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1940 census draws historians and genealogists

Source: The Washington Post

A small clue to Bernice Bennett’s past leapt out at her from the computer screen, on a scanned ledger filled with addresses entered with the precision penmanship that is a lost art. It was 72 years ago that census wor ...
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Texts with all the paper cut away

Source: Boing Boing

I work primarily with cut paper and communication through writing. I believe handwritten records are fragments of individual histories– expressions of self that very much bring forth the truth of our inner lives. In t ...
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