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Friday, October 30, 2009
HUNTING THE BIG UMBER BIRD
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I have to tell you a very dull story. It relates no shootouts, no hangings, no burnings at the stake. This story would make a really bad co...
PIKE'S PIQUE
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I have been searching for the right word to describe Zebulon Pike, and I keep coming back to the word “Shlub”. It is Yiddish word meaning a...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
AN UNPAID DEBT
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I would say it was the nastiest letter ever written by Ben Franklin (that we know of). On April 4, 1778, Franklin dipped his bitter pen in ...
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