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Video: How to Whistle with an Acorn Top
I’m all about the acorns lately! Here is a quick video to show you how to whistle with an acorn top or hickory hull. This is a great survival tip, but it is also great trick to show kids when out at the campsite or wherever oak trees abound. Check it out!
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How to Make Acorn Coffee
I had a reason for wanting to try some sort of coffee substitute, and, as it turns out, acorn coffee is not bad. The final result has an earthy, nutty, charred aroma, not unlike coffee, with chocolate undertones. Here is a simple guide on how to make your own acorn coffee.
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Flanking Your Passions: Achieving Goals Indirectly
Some days back, I had just stepped into a favorite coffee shop of mine when I noticed the owner, Paul, an Aussie who makes incredible coffee, clearing objects from the counter top so that an award might be prominently displayed: Best New Coffee Shop in Charlotte, 2015. I asked him how it came ...
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Sep 25, 2015
Man of the Month: Harry Houdini – Part 2 – The Escapist
“What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.” – Harry Houdini, Magician, Escape Artist, & Actor, 1874-1926
Perhaps what amazes me the most about Houdini is how he heard his true life calling at such an early age, and heeded that call with unreserved fervor. Rather than ...
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Sep 15, 2015
Barbati Fratres – The Bearded Brothers and the Start of the Freemasons
When you think of Freemasons, what typically comes to mind? A secret organization, shrouded in mystery? An ancient brotherhood with unknown ties of influence throughout history? Great! Because I am absolutely going to play that up!
I believe what I have uncovered and what you are about to read is ...
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Lessons in Manliness from Mark Watney of The Martian
“My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.” – Mark Watney, The Martian
Typically, on Wolf & Iron, I write about men of history or some story from my own life from which some manliness can be gleaned. However, The Martian is such a ...
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My Story – From Fatherless to Manliness
There is a common thread which runs through the frayed cord of men, not only in our time and the last many generations, but in time immemorial: our fathers. Whether good or bad or all-together absent, fathers impact the lives of their sons. Here is my story of going from fatherless to manliness.
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Sep 7, 2015
Man of the Month: Harry Houdini – Part 1 – The Handcuff King
“I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life – all mystery and magic.” – Harry Houdini, Magician, Escape Artist, & Actor, 1874-1926
The year is 1906. A young escape artist known as Harry Houdini — or simply Houdini — slides along with the Detroit river ...
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Sep 1, 2015
Man in Runes
This article will be a little different from the ones you will typically find on this site. Not because it is more Christian in focus, but because it may not have a specific message that I can really hone in. Essentially, I stumbled upon something that I thought was kind of cool, really ...
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Aug 27, 2015
Book Review: Legend by Eric Blehm + Signed Copy Giveaway!
“We were also starting to see a slow trickle of body bags and wounded. I don’t really believe that even our training personnel had any idea about what we were walking into.” – Roy Benavidez on Vietnam, Legend, Eric Blehm
When Eric Blehm’s book, Legend, arrived in the ...
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The Manly Etiquette of Playing Cards
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.” – Paul Newman, Actor & Philanthropist, 1925-2008
The following article is a guest post from Manly.Is (Josh Wood). Read the author's bio below.
Manly etiquette is a ...
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Aug 24, 2015
How C.S. Lewis Dealt with Bullies: With Fists and Mother-Wit
C.S. Lewis tells of some torturous days as a young boy in boarding school. Bullies were the norm and you had to have some street smarts to deal with them. Sometimes with was with fists, other times it was with mother-wit.
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