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Morten Reistad 6,000,000.... that's why. Not the point, people are trying to take our ancestral home away from us because, for a BRIEF period, between...
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my wife has just started a set of books that had been awarded her father at west point ... they are from a series of univ. history lectures from the (18)70-80s (and the books have some inscription about being awarded to her father for some excellence by the colonial daughters of the 17th century).
Yeah. Been there, done that. Not really imagining, just remembering. :) In some ways, it was better. For one, you generally got an OS that would boot very very fast, mostly...
part of the series covers the religous extremists that colonized new england and that the people finally got sick of the extreme stuff that the clerics and leaders were responsible for and eventually migrated to more moderation. it reads similar to some of lawarence's description of religious extremism in the seven pillars of wisdom. there is also some thread that notes that w-o the demacratic influence of virginia and some of the other moderate colonies ... the extreme views of new england would have resulted in a different country.
somewhat related is a story that my wife had from one her uncles several years ago. salem had sent out form letters to descendents of the town's inhabitants asking for contributions for a memorial. the uncle wrote back saying that since their family had provided the entertainment at the original event ... that he felt that their family had already contributed sufficiently.
minor note ... the savearea allocation was the responsibility of the calling program ... but the saving of registers were the responsibility...
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i was recently reading an old history book (published around 1880) that claimed that it was extremely fortunate that the declaration of independence (as well as other founding efforts) were much more influenced by scottish descendents in the (state of) virginia area ... than any english influence from the (state of) mbutt. area ... that the USA would be a markedly different nation if more of the Mbuttachusetts-English influence had prevailed (as opposed to the Virginia-Scottish influence).
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