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Friday, September 23, 2011
TILL THE COWS COME HOME
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I admit that eventually we must all bow to the will of genetics, even if we aren’t common cattle. And when you come up against a human f...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
WHAT'S EATING YOU
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I think of that evening as if it were a C.S.I. episode. Three suspects, Hugh Morville, William Tracy and Richard Breton, enter an office. Th...
Sunday, September 18, 2011
GENIUS THE FOURTH WEEK OF MAY, 1863
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FRIDAY MAY 22, 1863 Since midnight, the 220 artillery pieces in Grant's arsenal have been bombarding the Vicksburg land defences,...
Friday, September 16, 2011
THE FIRST DISSENTER
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I suppose someone had to be first, and John Billington was as likely a choice as any other man. Rumor has it that John left England in 1620...
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