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SimonBolivar

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  • Birthday 03/25/2018

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  1. I absolutely love sitting down at a restaurant at the end of the day with 2,500 calories to go and some tired ass legs. It really ties the day together.
  2. The lesson moving forward is to only take cold hard cash, in advance, for services from the United States. Well until the dollar officially crashes then only take Swiss francs.
  3. PC Results:
  4. Not at the Wichita Falls School of Christianity and Buc-ee's Services™️
  5. I wish they would replace the North American game with Kingsville (they play a noncon vs Northwest Missouri State that day). That would've been fun for their first season.
  6. Don't affect is life? He had to press "English" on the ATM the other day.
  7. Now it's me that looks like a loser!
  8. Djurgården making the semis of Conference with Betis, Chelsea, and Fiorentina is cool.
  9. Which they used perfectly!
  10. Get you the tightest Houston Dynamo jersey you can fit into for the next appointment.
  11. I really like China Family on Airport's version, but I've learned to embrace the hunt through the chiles for any leftover chicken or peanuts.
  12. Next time you're down at MDA go to Mala Sichuan and get the Spicy and Crispy Chicken which is my favorite meal on this planet. When I was taking my grandfather to MD Anderson after graduating from BU, in my bum unemployment year, they were treating him for multiple cancers on the same day which was a thing of beauty but took some time. I got me an annual pass to the Houston Zoo and would chill there on nice days while he was getting his treatment and if the weather was bad then I'd just wait in the lobby and see how many elephantmen came through. Always somebody worse off.
  13. Sorry for quoting such an old post but There are much better works (this is coming from a guy who used to have Foote as his avatar on this site) especially when Foote is saying things like "The North fought that war with one arm tied behind their back" which is generally not considered to be true. Historiographically, he doesn't really fit into the equation that much and if you're looking for a full synthesis then McPherson is still probably considered the "best" of the books that can also be categorized as pop history. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War... book by James M. McPherson ($5) I also recommend watching Yale's David Blight's course (an entire semester of HIST119 at Yale for free) if you haven't watched it yet on YouTube. Here are the books in that course, The NPS also published this essay from Alabama Prof George Rable in '04 that has some great works on different subjects in the war but is over 20 years old now. civilwarbibliography.pdf Here's the required reading list for my school's graduate historiographical class from Fall 2023:
  14. It was a hell of a thing when Spock died
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