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- Thu Jul 11, 2019 7:25 pm
- Forum: Immigration
- Topic: Diaspora
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11968
Diaspora
Taken from the Pages of Wikipedia. "The term is derived from the Greek verb διασπείρω (diaspeirō), "I scatter", "I spread about" which in turn is composed of διά (dia), "between, through, across" and the verb σπείρω (speirō), "I sow, I scatter". In Ancient Greece the term διασπορά (diaspora) hence m...
- Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:55 pm
- Forum: Love Songs
- Topic: Lets see
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15871
Lets see
if this works
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 4:11 pm
- Forum: Love Stories
- Topic: Once Upon a Time
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14718
Once Upon a Time
there was a boi named nate...
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:40 pm
- Forum: Love Advice
- Topic: Loveline
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13947
Loveline
1-900-mix-a-lot and kick those nasty thoughts.
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:46 pm
- Forum: Immigration
- Topic: True Westerners Mail Oder Brides
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10459
True Westerners Mail Oder Brides
by JANA BOMMERSBACH It wasn’t greed for gold or lust for land—it was loneliness. The nation’s gender geography was all out of kilter. In the West were thousands of unattached men who’d left everything behind to seek their fortunes. In the East were most of the women—and the Civil War would only comp...
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Ferrari GT 250
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14733
Ferrari GT 250
1959. Before or after you're married?
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:27 pm
- Forum: Immigration
- Topic: A History of Mail Order Brides
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8127
A History of Mail Order Brides
by Rupert Taylor Contact Author The first European arrivals in North America were predominantly men. Without females, the colonies became precarious. They needed women of child-bearing age to sustain the population base. Schemes were set up to attract women to take up lives with men they had never m...
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:22 pm
- Forum: Immigration
- Topic: The Untold Strory of PIcture Brides
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10289
The Untold Strory of PIcture Brides
30 years in the making, Picture Bride Stories stems from 250 oral history interviews conducted by author Barbara F. Kawakami, 96. 16 of those stories made it into her book published by University of Hawaii Press. These are the stories of women who married men they never met, introduced via pictures....
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:17 pm
- Forum: Immigration
- Topic: Japanese Picture Brides
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10253
Japanese Picture Brides
The picture bride system was extremely important to the Japanese immigrants during the early 1900’s. It was a system that allowed Japanese men in the United States to find wives from overseas in order to start families. Japanese bachelors would mail their self portraits to a matchmaker in Japan who ...
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello to the World!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10020
Hello to the World!
Hello my name is Xavier the Adminstrator of the board. Im here just as you are to try and find somebody thats interested in getting married. Im going to be 42 next year, i have no children, and i enjoy sports, horror movies, and a well cooked dinner at 5:00 p.m.. My time is spent working most of the...