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Three men in adventures: 50 years’ foundation of friendship

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Editor’s note: Rick McKay, Joe Masonick, and Jack Karolewski, have been annual travel companions for more than 50 years to a variety of sites with many goals. This week’s adventure is the third in the series. The previous part is at thevoice.us/intrepid-interesting-involved-the-trios-first-journey By Rick McKay I explained how I became...

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Intrepid, interesting, involved: The trio’s first journey

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Editor’s note: Rick McKay, Joe Masonick, and Jack Karolewski, have been annual travel companions for more than 50 years to a variety of sites with many goals. This week’s adventure is the second in the series. The first part is available at thevoice.us/on-friendships-50-years-of-varied-travel-adventures By Rick McKay The 1960s was an...

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Recalling a special trip to Europe with her daughter

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First of three parts “Younger than Springtime are you. Gayer than laughter are you.“Sweeter than music are you.” —Richard Rodgers Spring cleaning had come early due to the stay-at-home directives in the Spring. Closets, drawers, garage, pantry all were involved. I came across my journal entries from the Eurail Pass...

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Mother Nature at work: Problems of population, diet

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From the vault, November 13, 2014, revised: Swine flu. Asian bird flu. West Nile disease. Remember the hue-and-cry over these threats to public health? Whatever happened to them? They seem to have disappeared off of our radar. But, wait! There’s a new, even more deadly, threat on our radar. It’s...

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Lions Clubs International Foundation’s three-year campaign to raise $300 Million

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Plano resident Ed Carter Monday, Feb. 17, gives details of Campaign 100: Lions Clubs International Foundation’s three-year campaign to raise $300 Million for Lions’ service projects worldwide.

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Kane County Health Department monitoring coronavirus situation

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The Kane County Health Department (KCHD) is actively monitoring the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation. Chicago health officials, the Illinois Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case in Illinois. It was the second case reported in the United States. The first was identified...

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Varied: Women in politics, China’s role, GOP 20’s plight

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Thinking-out-loud department: • Donna Crane’s recent column about women in government in America got me to thinking deep thoughts. Here’s one thought to explain why there are such low numbers of women in government. Sociologically, the United States is stuck in the 19th Century. Men ruled the roost, and women...

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U.S. lags behind other countries for women in government

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Emma Newburger, of CNBC Make It, wrote: “Despite gains, the U.S. ranks 75th globally in women’s representation in government. “When president Donald Trump praised the record number of women in Congress at his (most recent) State of the Union address, female lawmakers, many clad in white to honor the suffrage...

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Final thoughts on Londontown visit in a world class city

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The second part can be viewed at thevoice.us/languid-london-captured-on-warm-september-holidays Last of three parts “Hats are radical, but only people who wear hats understand that.” —London milliner Philip Treacy London in September was beautiful azure skies and glorious sunshine. Average temperatures were in the 70s and without rain at all. Perfect for...

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Assessment: China leans forward, U.S. leans back

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By Jim Nowlan For millennia, war was how groups did economic development. Today, economic and technical dominance are how groups do war, and right now we’re losing something akin to a modern war with China. When I first arrived in Shanghai 15 years ago, to serve as a “foreign expert”...

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History, tradition, sights, fill every visit to London

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First of three parts “The only drawback of an English Summer is that it lasts so short a time” —Country Life 1 May 1911 Did you know that in London you could hear 300 languages and visit 70 museums? Going across the Big Pond promises adventure, excitement, and novelty. So...

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Trump, Zelensky transcript

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The White House released the rough transcript of President Donald Trump’s July 25 telephone conversation with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The link to the transcript: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf...

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Kane County Board chairman Chris Lauzen requests printing the Trump/Zelensky transcript

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By Chris Lauzen If American citizens and voters are going to be subjected by extreme, partisan Democrats to the water-torture and divisiveness of impeachment hearings based upon interpretations, so-called parodies, and outright lies, the least that our free and fair press can do is publish the actual transcript of the...

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Examination telling of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

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“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” —Sherlock Holmes “A Scandal in Bohemia” The author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first Holmes story “A Study in Scarlet” in 1886. This fictional character was based on a real man, Dr. Joseph Bell, a renown forensic scientist...

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Words carry great meaning, often by using just a few

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As societies develop, languages evolve. Researchers analyzed Stone Age and modern skulls. Different jaw placements allow our mouths to make different sounds. With a database of 2,000 languages, out of the 8,000 languages in existence today, sounds were identified that showed frequently used sounds and where. “New sounds are introduced...

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An interpreter, standing, left, gives translation in English and Beijing Chinese at a breakfast at Aurora City Hall Wednesday, Oct. 24. A delegation of municipal employees in Beijing, approximately 20, came to Aurora, and after a welcoming breakfast, above, visited sites, including Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA). Carter Crane/The Voice
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A delegation of municipal employees in Beijing, China visits Aurora

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An interpreter, standing, left, gives translation in English and Beijing Chinese at a breakfast at Aurora City Hall Wednesday, Oct. 24. A delegation of municipal employees in Beijing, approximately 20, came to Aurora, and after a welcoming breakfast, above, visited sites, including Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA). Carter Crane/The...

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Rotary Club of Aurora, among Millions, to participate in event on World Polio Day, October 24

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The Rotary Club of Aurora will mark historic progress toward a polio-free world while urging community support to end the paralyzing disease. An event , October 24, among thousands, will be held by Rotary organizations across the globe on World Polio Day. Rotary members in the Aurora area are among...

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Rotary Club Youth Exchange program for students 15 to 19 years old

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Julieta Del Toro, a recent graduate from West Aurora High School discusses her future plans and goals with members at the Rotary Club of Aurora, Monday at Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora. She is part of the Rotary Club Youth Exchange program and will leave for Brazil soon to spend...

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History International

Empress Catherine the Great ruled Russia for 34 years

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Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anghalt-Zerbst Dornburg, later known as Catherine the Great, was born in the Kingdom of Prussia in Stettin, Pomerania April 21, 1729. Her father was a Prussian general. Two of her first cousins were Kings of Sweden, Gustav III, and Charles XIII. She was not Russian...

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