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    The Earning Power of Predictions

    Card counters in Las Vegas have better odds of winning at blackjack …

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    Sick of motor-mouth Politicians? Me too! – Part 2/2

    The US exported almost US$17 billion worth of American made clothing to other countries in 2011 MADE in the UNITED STATES.

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    Sick of motor-mouth Politicians? Me too! – Part 1/2

    When Harry Reid opened his mouth, it sounded as if every penny was going to China but that is not true.

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    Originally posted on Fandango Groovers Movie Blog: What is the greatest movie ever made? What is the stupidest question I have been asked this week? I’m not sure the first question has an answer, but do believe the first question is the answer to the second question! There are those who will tell you Citizen Kane is the greatest film…

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    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 6/6

    While Hart worked in Ningpo, as you may see, the concern of the Chinese and Westerners had little to do with the Taiping Rebellion and more with pirates and crime.

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    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 5/6

    Tilly, in claim six, ever the historian as she says in her Readers Cafe review of The Concubine Saga, points out that the Santai Dynasty mentioned in chapter four was not the oldest known dynasty when in fact the oldest was the Xia. She is correct but wrong at the same time.  The Xia (or “Hsia” as Lin Yutang (1895…

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    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 4/6

    In Tilly’s opinion, castrations only took place after a man was hired to work in the Forbidden City … She was wrong!

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    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 3/6

    No one knows what Hart actually paid for Ayaou or Shao-mei because Hart did not mention the price paid anywhere in his surviving journals

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    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 2/6

    Tilly claimed that Robert Hart could not have been raised to respect women as equals in Victorian England.

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    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 1/6

    If an author believes he or she has been defamed, then it is the duty of the author to speak out in his or her own defense unless a loyal fan does it first.