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• The History of the Short-Lived Independent Republic of Florida

  
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  By William C. Davis, Smithsonian magazine, May 2013, In the predawn fog of September 23, 1810, about 50 men, led by Revolutionary War veteran Philemon Thomas, walked in the open gate of Fort San Carlos in Baton Rouge. An additional 25 men on horseback rode through a gap in the fort’s wall. Spanish soldiers ...
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• The Inconvenient Memory of Wounded Kee

  
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  It has always struck me that one of the worst acts of genocide (if you can measure the quality of genocide) committed by human beings on other human beings has been committed by the people of European descent in North America upon the native people. It has been a long and inglorious history has America sought to ...
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• Estate of the Union

  
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  Share/Bookmark The United States started life as colonies strung along the Atlantic seaboard of the North American continent and barely extending 50 miles inland. By the time of the Declaration of Independence, these original 13 colonies occupied an area roughly one-tenth of today’s country. Over the next 200 ...
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• "CAPTURED!!!" When the greatest American heroes fluff their lines

  
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      Bostons Finest doin their jobs damn well. When I’d hear emergency services personnel responding to questions after doing heroic acts in the line of duty saying things like, “I was just doing my job” or “Any other officer in my position would have done the same”, I’d feel a ...
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