H Paul Garland

This gentleman gives Mexican Americans a black eye.

- - One of the battles of the Mexican-American war took place in the river valley of the Rio Grande North of El Paso, Texas. South of Las Cr...

- I was watching a great PBS TV show on reading 2,000 year old papyrus which has been damaged. Scientists are now using a NASA imaging techn...

- - In yesterday’s news on TV and in the papers, two relatively famous men were reported as having died from complications of Chronic Lympho...

- The ACOR internet support group for CLL was a great deal more interesting and intellectually stimulating back before the various bad boys ...

I was reading a newspaper article today about how the Mexican authorities are “cleaning up” Juarez. No longer allowing underage Gringo kids...

Albert Bacon Fall was a lawyer. He became a judge, and was later one of the first Republican U.S. Senators from New Mexico. In 1921 Presiden...

I became aware today that there is going to be a Vaseline Glass collector's convention in San Antonio at the Holiday Inn Select Airport ...

- War is horrible. That really is the nicest thing one can say about it. - But there are times, unfortunately, when a society has no choice ...

Yesterday I drove up to Deming, New Mexico USA to visit the Deming Luna County Historical Museum. It has been closed for 14 months undergoin...

- My sister and brother-in-law just got back from an extended trip back east. - In their travels they went to a place that specialies in Vas...

I guess I’m about as much into Harry Potter as your average 58 year old man. The last time I was in Great Britain (a little over a year ago)...

In 1950 Professor W.S. Strain discovered that a stony meteorite had fallen east of El Paso, Texas. The GPS coordinates are approximately N 3...

- My sister and I visited three graveyards i n town earlier this week. - We were going to pay our respects to various family members, and th...

The El Paso International Museum of Art has an excellent exhibition going on called Art on The Border. The lead painter is the fine artist a...

- When I came home this beautiful little bug was waiting for me on my storm door. I gently shooed him away. - I was cleaning up the image a ...

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- Germany in many way has a similar situation to America. - The educational level among native Germans is high, so the birth rate is very lo...

A friend of a friend just moved to India. She sold all her worldly possessions and moved without ever having visited the place she was going...

July 11 is the United Nations' World Population Day. - Here is a link to the Sierra Club website about it. The total population that the...