Diana West

1 week ago | ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth King |Diana West |Jack Cashill

Fast-Growing Jewish Population May Hold Off Israel’s “Demographic Time Bomb” “Israel’s Jewish women are unusual among industrialized nations for their high birth rate, while modernizing Arab women have fewer babies than in the past. Israelis have wondered at times whether they would be outnumbered by Palestinians and become a minority in the world’s only Jewish homeland.

Nov 5, 2024 | missourilife.com | Ron Soodalter |Diana West

There was a time in America’s history when our currency was an imprecise, ill-defined medium of exchange. Harking back to prerevolutionary years, colonists freely used French, Spanish, and English coins to conduct commerce. Individual colonies often issued their own money, leading to endless confusion. It was a time when a “buck” was valued as the trade equivalent of a deerskin or buckskin and five bucks bought a cask of whisky. Conducting a war, however, has always been an expensive proposition.

Oct 23, 2024 | missourilife.com | Diana West |Robin Seaton Jefferson |Danita Allen Wood

James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891 as an exercise program for college men, which was soon adapted for college women. But that caused a backlash. Medical professionals, religious leaders, and education experts said basketball was “unhealthy, unladylike, and inappropriate for young ladies.” It was even thought that exercise, like running, would prevent women from bearing children later on.