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Wall Hanging Quilts A Specialized Art Form Of Quilt Making By: Merlina Naldo
Wall hanging quilts are woven in multiple patterns and colors. This specialized art form has been perfected over generations. A combination of natural and artificial fibers has benefited weavers considerably in making this a profitable occupation.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-17)
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Treasure Hunting On Mount Franklin By: jygco
It was a about 8:00 a.m. on a December morning here in El Paso, Texas as I was hiking and treasure hunting up a steep mountain. If you know anything about El Paso it is that it is called the Sun City, so December here feels like spring. It was a beautiful morning, temperature was in the 70's and there was a nice cool breeze.
We started up the mountain at about 8:00 a.m., after we had checked off the items from our supply list.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Along Came A Black Widow By: jygco
The Black Widow is a black spider that has a red triangle shape design on its belly and it kills her mate after conception and eats him so she can feed her little spiders when the egg sack hatches or something like that I promise that this blackwidow won't bite.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Find Buried Treasure In Your Own Backyard With Your Metal Detectorj By: jygco
For centuries people have buried their valuables for fear of losing them to thieves. People would bury their treasure in their own backyard and forget about it or they move away and never come back leaving the treasure behind.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Garrett Super Scanner Metal Detector, Your Safety Comes First By: jygco
The Garrett Super Scanner is the most widely used handheld metal detector in the world. It is the best metal detector of choice for the Olympics. it has been used to protect our athletes in the most recent games. The infiltration of terrorists in to the United States of America has made us wary of the fact that we must protect ourselves from foreign and domestic attacks.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Finding Buried Treasures In Old Schools With Your Metal Detector By: jygco
Glad you came back to continue in your search of great places to treasure seek. Now, regardless of where you live, there will most likely be or has been a school in or around your area that is hundreds of years old; some may not be standing, that is what makes this next resource so valuable.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Treasure In The Old Pump House By: jygco
I have heard accounts from people who say that they found treasure under the edge of cement slabs and big rocks in rest areas. I met this older gentleman a while back who had a fear of banks. He owned a farm, had lots of cattle and he also owned some houses that he rented. His family never knew what he did with his money, no one did. A few years ago someone...(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Coins, Coins, Coins - Places To Metal Detect By: jygco
Fairgrounds and picnic areas are excellent sites to search with your metal detector. People of all ages come together and what do they do? They all have money to spend, therefore some of this money will be dropped and end up buried in the ground; the perfect scenario for us treasure hunters.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Mel Fisher Hit The Mother Load! By: jygco
Let's keep up the faith and one day we will hit our mother load. “Down in the Florida Keys, there was a treasure hunter whose motto was “Today's the day”. For years Mel Fisher would send his divers with those encouraging words and armed with underwater metal detectors to find a Spanish ship that sank off the keys in 1622. He often had to pay his men in promises while dodging bill collectors.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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Fun Activities With A Metal Detector By: jygco
If you've recently purchased a metal detector or you're looking into making that kind of investment, welcome to the club. I recently purchased my third metal detector. There are many fun detecting activities you can do either with the whole family or alone.(read entire article)(posted on: 2011-03-10)
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