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1. Squidoo Charity Fund - Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties The Squidoo Charity Fund was developed for lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity, but cannot make a decision where to send them. This is the default payment setting on all new lenses. A different charity (or charities) is chosen...
2. Sadako Sasaki Sadako Sasaki was only two years old when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. At the age of 11, she was diagnosed with Leukemia, or the "Atomic Bomb Disease." Her courage in the face of her cancer and determination to fold 1,000 paper crane...
3. Mattie Stepanek Mattie Stepanek wanted to be known as a poet, peacemaker and philosopher who played. Even though he had a rare form of muscular dystrophy, dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, Mattie was able to accomplish a lot in his short life. He was not limited...
4. Kit Cat Clock - 2,365,200,000 tail wags and still counting The Kit Cat Clock started in the Great Depression, and after 75 years, it's still going strong. It's been made since 1932 by the California Clock Company, although according to a website detailing the history of the clock, it started out in Portland,...
5. Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale helped to mold the fields of nursing and public health. She earned the nickname "The Lady With the Lamp" for her tireless nursing care delivered to British soldiers during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Although most...
6. Notes Left Behind Notes Left Behind is a heartbreaking, loving compilation of drawings and notes written by six-year-old Elena Desserich to her family during her struggle to fight a rare form of pediatric brain cancer. Elena secretly hid the messages around her home f...
7. Celtic Music: The Thistle & Shamrock The Thistle and Shamrock, one of National Public Radio's most popular shows, showcases traditional music from all of the Celtic lands: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Brittany in France, Galicia in Spain, Canada, the United States, and any...
8. Celtic Music: Enya Enya first gained notice as a solo artist with her work on the BBC Scotland series The Celts. The music was released as a self-titled album and later remastered and released with the series title. Her four latest albums of new material have each won...
9. Celtic Music: Lenses ☺ This lens points to other lenses I've made highlighting Celtic music performers as well as radio shows, both broadcast and Internet, that play the traditional music of the Celtic lands. Celtic music covers a lot of territory and many performers. Each...
10. Monterey Pop Festival The Monterey Pop Festival was held June 16 - 18, 1967 at the County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California, also the site of established folk, jazz and blues festivals. It was the first large rock festival, with around 200,000 people attending, and serv...
11. Celtic Music: Golden Bough Paul Espinoza and Margie Butler, founding members of Golden Bough, started performing together in 1976 and formed Golden Bough in the San Francisco area in 1980. After some changes in lineup, Golden Bough is currently a trio with Butler (harp, bodhra...
12. Novelty Songs Novelty songs often become popular for a while at least. They enjoyed a lot of airplay in the 1950s and 1960s. Songs from those decades dominate the top 50 list of novelty songs. But many of the songs are from people who had their moment of fame with...
13. Who are Squidoo's Charities and NonProfit Partners? Squidoo.com currently supports more than 90 nonprofit organizations, from the country's most popular causes right down to tiny local animal shelters. This lens focuses on all of the Squidoo Charities and NonProfit Partners. Squidoo Lensmasters c...
14. John McPhee - A Pioneer of Creative Nonfiction John McPhee is regarded as one of the founders of "new journalism," a field which includes Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson. He does not agree with that assessment. For one thing, other "new journalists" tended to insert themselves into the narrative, w...
15. Celtic Music: Alexander James Adams Alexander James Adams is an Oregon-based singer/songwriter who plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin and bodhran (and even uses a bodhran tipper on a cutting board if the gig is outdoors and the weather's damp). Billed as the Faerie Tale Minstrel, Alec is...
16. Patricia Quigley and Susan Retik 9/11 Widows Live Beyond the 11th Turning a tragedy into a tribute is one of the ways for survivors to keep going and and keep living after the traumatic loss of a loved one. Introducing my superheroes...Patricia Quigley and Susan Retik, two 9/11 widows on a heroic mission to overco...
17. Celtic Music: Danú Danu was formed in an Rinn, County Waterford, Ireland in 1996. They performed at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in France, then decided to stay together to perform and record. While not afraid to experiment and expand their repertoire, Danu re...
18. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Coping with the Holidays The classic song, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," is a song about longing to be home with the ones that you love. Listening to this beautiful melody and lyrics is one way of being home for a bit even when you're far apart...if only in your dr...
19. 100 Lenses for My 100th Lens For my 100th lens, I decided to take an idea from KimGiancaterino and visit 100 lenses. I plan on visiting, commenting, and rating 100 lenses over the next 24 hours.
20. Celtic Music: The Bothy Band The Bothy Band came together in late 1974 at a musical celebration of 25 years of the record label Gael Linn. When Donal Lunny left Planxty to start his own label, Mulligan Records, in 1975 he got the group together again. While their history only sp...