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JF Collen has spent the last umpteen years practicing as a lawyer—but don’t hold that against her! She has made a career of protecting Intellectual Property, but at heart always wanted to be writing novels instead of legal briefs. She has written award-winning children’s books, “The Enjella® Adventure Series,” using fantasy as a vehicle for discussing the real world problems of children. She has tried to use her talent for storytelling for good instead of evil.

But her real love is history. One of her many hobbies is traveling to historical sites around the world with her husband and four children and reading the biographies of the people who affected these places. Her books depict modern dilemmas in historical settings, with a touch of humo ...more

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Why are we Yankee Doodles Anyway?

Well, Yankee was a derogatory name for a colonist (we weren’t even Americans yet!). It is unclear exactly how it was coined (one theory is it’s a Native American mispronunciation of English (Yen-gees), another blames the Dutch settlers --‘Janke’ is a term of endearment for ‘little Jan’.) But it is clear the British army officers called the Colonists Yankees to insult them.

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