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		<title>William Augustus Bowles &#8211; Creek War Chief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Galvez captured West Florida the British defenders of Pensacola were shipped off to Havana and thence to Long Island, where they would wait out the remainder of the “rebellion” in paroled status.  What this meant was that they were forbidden to fight against Spain and her allies, but perfectly free to get back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/03/20/william-augustus-bowles-tory-war-chief/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Vote Like a Sheep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote in a recent post about how Fox News garners the largest share of the cable news audience by preaching to them.  Americans watch Fox News because it’s fun to watch.  A close friend of mine, who is a liberal Democrat, watches Glenn Beck every day because he is so outrageously over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/03/16/dont-vote-like-a-sheep/</link>
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		<title>Saint Paul: &#8220;Fox News and Fundamentalists Make Poor Bedfellows&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got some feedback from my recent article on Brit Hume’s proselytizing on Fox News Sunday in January.  Few were willing to put their opinions “on the air” however.  The feedback did not appear on my website for all to see, but came in the form of Facebook messages, which are (presumably) private, and emails.
Criticism ranged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/03/04/saint-paul-fox-news-and-fundamentalists-make-poor-bedfellows/</link>
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		<title>The Emerald Coast White Quartz Beach Challenge</title>
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It has come to my attention that there are a couple places in the world claiming to have sand that is whiter than our beaches here on the Emerald Coast.  I take issue with that, and would like to settle the matter.  Since I’ve only had 350 readers of my blog so far, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/03/04/the-emerald-coast-white-quartz-beach-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Brit Hume&#8217;s Proselytizing Will Not Help Fox Win Republican Votes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when I was about to give Fox News another chance to live up to its “fair and balanced” slogan I learned that anchor emeritus Brit Hume, in a January 3rd airing of Fox News Sunday, urged Tiger Woods, the world’s best golfer and one of the world’s most accomplished ladies&#8217; men, to give up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/02/26/brit-humes-proselytizing-does-not-help-fox-win-republican-votess/</link>
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		<title>Kizzle Kazzle and Wicky Wacky Woo: 10 Weird Facts About the Sport of Curling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1.  Seventy percent of all curling stones ever made in the history of the sport come from the island of Ailsa Craig, a massive &#8220;volcanic plug&#8221; of granite emerging from the cold waters of the Firth of Clyde, halfway between Glasgow and Belfast by sea, like the smooth hump of a monolithic whale frozen in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/02/21/kizzle-kazzle-and-wicky-wacky-woo-10-weird-facts-about-the-sport-of-curling/</link>
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		<title>William Augustus Bowles &#8212; The Siege of Pensacola</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The brashness that got William Augustus Bowles thrown out of the British Army served him much better among the Chattahoochee Creeks.  He spent most of a year learning the ways of the Indians, near the forks of the Apalachicola at Perryman’s Town.  By the time he emerged from exile he had become as much Indian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/02/19/william-augustus-bowles-the-siege-of-pensacola/</link>
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		<title>William Augustus Bowles – The Formative Years</title>
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My most frequent commenter, Jan, has suggested I talk about “my pirate” in one of my next blog posts.  I suppose now is a good time to start.
William Bowles was born in the British colony of Maryland in the 1760s.  Several members of his father’s family were involved in the bookselling business back in London, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/02/12/william-augustus-bowles-%e2%80%93-the-formative-years/</link>
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		<title>Taoism, Spiders, and Stinky Cheese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a day and a half since my first post and I must say that the experience has been anticlimactic.  Seventy unique visitors have pointed their browsers at my blog to date.  I even had a handful of hits from such places as Canada, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.  It was thrilling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/02/10/taoism-spiders-and-stinky-cheese/</link>
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		<title>What To Do If Your Web Bio Is Too Long &#8212; Make It Your First Blog Post!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t squeeze this into the bio section of my blog, so I&#8217;m using it here instead.
Mark Stanley has been writing stuff that very few people read since he learned to read about four decades ago.  He finds it depressing to think that his only creative outlet for the last 16 years, as an archaeologist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordrogue.com/2010/02/08/what-to-do-if-your-web-bio-is-too-long-make-it-your-first-blog-post/</link>
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