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- Financial Finesse: Tips for Using Electronic Bill Pay
Dec 9, 2008
It used to be years ago that the only option for paying bills each month was by writing checks and mailing them in a stamped envelope. With the...
Category: Finance
- So Many Banks: Do You Know the Difference?
Dec 4, 2008
In light of the recent turnaround in the economy, you may be hearing or reading about the different types of banks, such as a retail bank or...
Category: Finance
- Internet Banking Provides Choices and Convenience
Dec 4, 2008
As the Bob Dylan songs says, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and with the growth of home Internet use, they have changed quickly in the last...
Category: Finance
- Tobacco: The Rich-Tasting, Smokable Part Of Virginia History
Dec 4, 2008
In high school we all learn about the Stamp Act, the French and Indian War, and Lewis and Clark's expedition. (At least, we learn about these...
Category: Society and Culture
- Busting Six Credit Report Myths
Dec 4, 2008
A credit report is not only a person's borrowing history, it provides a score rating used by a lender to help determine whether an individual...
Category: Finance
- The Alternative Approach: Choosing a Non-Traditional Engagement Ring
Dec 4, 2008
While diamonds remain the number one choice when it comes to an engagement ring, many couples prefer to take an alternative approach - choosing...
Category: Weddings
- Jewelry Gift-Giving Ideas for Every Stage of Your Relationship
Dec 4, 2008
Nothing expresses affection quite like jewelry. Whether it's a blossoming relationship, filled with the excitement of newness, or the steady, deep...
Category: Society and Culture
- Internet Basics: Protecting Your Identity Online
Dec 4, 2008
The use of the Internet has created new ways of conducting business, shopping, and even banking. From a home computer, bank clients can now manage...
Category: Finance
- The Cigar In The Visual Arts
Dec 3, 2008
Cigar smoking has left its imprint on the world of the visual arts. Pablo Picasso, to name just one, was known to love a good cigar.
Category: Food and Drink
- Bank On It: Consumers Discover the Convenience of Online Banking
Dec 3, 2008
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Internet offers a safe and convenient way to shop for financial services as well...
Category: Finance
- Is It All Greek to You? Deciphering Internet Banking and Security Buzzwords
Dec 1, 2008
The Internet has created a world greater than earlier generations could have ever imagined. At our fingertips lies access to information and...
Category: Finance
- Wars And Stratagems And ... Cigars?
Dec 1, 2008
A tobacco tax that has its origins in the rivalry between a king and his courtier? Increased sales due to war? And plague? It's all part of the...
Category: Politics
- What Every Cigar Smoker Ought To Know: Tobacco
Dec 1, 2008
On the world scale, tobacco smoking is relatively new. Before the Western European Renaissance, it was basically only smoked, as far as anyone can...
Category: Men's Issues
- Tobacco: A Muse For Writers
Nov 26, 2008
Ernest Hemingway loved his cigars so much, they named a brand after him. Rudyard Kipling, Hemingway's hero (and fellow poet of machismo), wrote an...
Category: Recreation and Sports
- Tobacco, Patrick Henry, And The Struggle For Freedom
Nov 26, 2008
Picture this: in eighteenth-century Virginia, a common form of payment, in lieu of paper money, was tobacco. After all, it was easy to sell, the...
Category: Recreation and Sports
- Wedding Rings: Choosing Your Eternal Symbol of Love
Nov 25, 2008
Exchanged as tokens of love and commitment for thousands of years, the tradition of wedding rings has its origins with Egyptian pharaohs who chose...
Category: Jewelry
- Extreme Diamonds Fascinate Those Who Behold Them
Nov 25, 2008
There are diamonds and then there are diamonds. Anyone can appreciate a beautiful diamond mounted in a ring, necklace or bracelet. But there are...
Category: Jewelry
- The Civil Rights Movement: From Birmingham to the White House
Nov 23, 2008
Senator Barack Obama's historical candidacy for the President of the United States has refocused attention on the issue of diversity in America and...
Category: Travel
- Smoke A Cigar For Jeffersonian Democracy
Nov 22, 2008
History is often taught as if people didn't have bodies. As a contest between ideas, some successful and some not, or between Great Persons...
Category: Society and Culture
- That's How We Roll, Y'all: How To Roll A Cigar
Nov 22, 2008
Everybody has had that one friend: the guy who always, no matter what the inconvenience to himself or the implications for the cleanness of his...
Category: Hobbies
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