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Discussion of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).
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What Is Ghost...?
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You Always Wanted to Know About Ghosts, but Were Too Afraid to
Ask.......
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about the Ghost. We try our best to gather and provide the best
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Has anybody watched ‘Finding Your Roots’?
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‘Finding Your Roots’: Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s on PBS.
Sunday night they traced a black comedien (Wanda Sykes) family. What
they discovered is that her family was not freed with abolition in
1865. They were already free in Virginia. So they used all
available records and discovered that one branch of her family had... more »
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Why did Lincoln's election spark the Civil War ?
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We all probably know the answer to that. But every time it's
discussed, there are those that seem to think the Southerners feared
Lincoln and his government would move to abolish slavery. Despite
Lincoln's personal promise to his old friend Alexander Stephens.
I'm reading a very good book entitled "Plain Folk and Gentry in a... more »
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Duke Ellington
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Here's an interesting quotation frm the TLS:
"It wasn't easy being Duke Ellington . . . to put on a mask of urbane
sophistication . . . even when playing to a segregated audience in some
Southern dance hall, to give that audience music that was popular in
part because of the prejudices it reinforced--the 'jungle' style--even... more »
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off topic
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Book XI of the Aeneid finished. I've worked through books IX, X, and XI
in three months. Since each book contains about 800-900 lines of verse,
that means I'm going forward at about 30 lines each day.
In October, I will have been working on Latin for three years. Caesar's
Gallic wars, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the Aeneid, and some... more »
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off the hook
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"You're trying to get the south off the hook!"
This has been said here several times.
When I first heard this expression, I wasn't sure the origin of the
metaphor, "on the hook". I imagined it to be a meat hook with a
tortured human figure hanging from it. I don't use the expression
myself, and I have never heard it used in living speech.... more »
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