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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 15, 2012

Wine Bottles – Wide View by Julie Gentry   According to a new report, US consumers drank the equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of wine this past year, making it the world’s Number 1 consumer of wine. While China surpassed the United Kingdom for bottles of wine consumed, the British still drink more wine per [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 23, 2011

The childhood dinner prayer my family always said, and the one I taught my children: God is great, God is good, Let us thank Him For our food. Amen FOOD. GLORIOUS FOOD. Hanukkah is here and Christmas is only a few days away — to you, faithful and new readers, I wish you all a [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 19, 2011

  The supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, is dead. He was believed to be 69 years old when he passed away over the weekend, but there are conflicting reports about his age. Reportedly, Kim died of a heart attack. Emotions are running high in North Korea, with grief [...]

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