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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to identify a traditional missal by its title page, how rosaries and scapulars are made, and how to store and hand on old devotional objects.</description>
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      <title>Wedding family roles: who stands where, and why</title>
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      <title>Latin Monetary Union: coins, silver and gold</title>
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      <description>The Latin Monetary Union ran from 1865 to 1927. Its silver and gold coins still sit in dealer trays today, and the records explain why.</description>
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      <title>High School Sports: Bowling, Track and Golf Seasons</title>
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      <description>Día, El día de los niños / El día de los libros, is celebrated on April 30. Its origin in Mexico, Pat Mora's 1996 idea and how libraries mark it.</description>
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      <title>Be On Our Side: transit ads and the poster war</title>
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      <description>The Be On Our Side campaign put pro-Palestinian posters in American transit systems from 2010 to 2012, and counter-ads answered them in 2011.</description>
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      <title>Wild buckwheat: ID it, grow it, feed bees</title>
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      <description>A wild buckwheat is not the grain in your pantry. How to spot Eriogonum on a hike by flower, leaf and involucre, and which species to plant first in a dry</description>
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      <title>Baptist baptism, worship and the ABC-USA split</title>
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      <description>What Baptists believe about immersion, how a Baptist service runs from hymn to benediction, and how American Baptists differ from Southern Baptists.</description>
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    <title>Civil War Haiku</title>
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      <title>Reading a regiment: tracing a Georgia soldier through state records</title>
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      <description>How a reader or a poet reconstructs one Georgia soldier from enlistment entries, state pension applications and county rolls, and which of those records are already online.</description>
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