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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: The Mystery Continues
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Thursday, August 06, 2015. I've been meaning to write something about the disappearance of MH370. Except that there's not a whole lot to say. What we don't. Know dwarfs what we do. With so little information to go on, speculation runs rampant . and who's to say what's right? That's still mostly true. At least, it's true until new facts surface. Caution is all well and good, but exactly one. First of all, we can once a...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part IV: The Tale of the Tape
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Friday, August 27, 2010. Sesquicentennial, Part IV: The Tale of the Tape. The main advantage to looking back on these events from a century and a half is that so much information is available and indexed. For example, the 1860 Census. All states and regions listed by {free population}/{slave population}). Connecticut . 460,147/0. Maine . 628,279/0. Massachusetts . 1,231,066/0. New Hampshire . 326,073/0. Border States ...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part X: Secession Winter
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Friday, January 21, 2011. Sesquicentennial, Part X: Secession Winter. In hindsight, it's fairly plain that Scott's plan. A Texas - but passions ran too high for him to counter. Houston resigned rather than sign the instrument of secession. The positions had now hardened beyond a point of no return. The states that had bolted the Union were now dead-set on forming themselves into a new nation of their own. Could be spa...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part XXIX: July 3, 1863
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Wednesday, July 03, 2013. Sesquicentennial, Part XXIX: July 3, 1863. And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered." - King Henry V. With his cavalry chief, but knew what he was capable of when his head was screwed on straight. And he needed Stuart's wizardry in the saddle if he was going to pull a victory out of this mess. Meade was right: Lee was.
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part XXXI: The Fulcrum of History
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Friday, July 05, 2013. Sesquicentennial, Part XXXI: The Fulcrum of History. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago." - William Faulkner. And if you had to pick the central event within. After the news hit Europe, though...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part I: DNC 1860
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Saturday, April 24, 2010. Sesquicentennial, Part I: DNC 1860. First, let's get something out of the way before we start: the Civil War was. A century and a half ago this week in Charleston, South Carolina, the Democratic National Convention. Will have also been settled. Not so in 1860. Both nominee and platform were totally up for grabs. And that was a problem, since there were serious divisions between th...Case, dec...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part XLVIII: Epilogue, Part 3: ... And Dropping Them
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Monday, April 27, 2015. Sesquicentennial, Part XLVIII: Epilogue, Part 3: . And Dropping Them. I yield to no one precedence in love for the South. But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy." - Woodrow Wilson, March 1880. Is it possible to lose a war but win the peace? As an aside, it's ironic that a liberalized and democratized. To do with himself? How would he earn a living? There were ...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part XLIII: Looking Ahead, Looking Back
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Friday, February 13, 2015. Sesquicentennial, Part XLIII: Looking Ahead, Looking Back. Except that, if any of them had thought to cast their sight back fifty years in time and two thousand miles to the west, they'd see quite clearly that it had. The Siege of Petersburg was, in many ways, a preview of coming attractions. Check Massive artillery pounding the Hell out of everything in sight? Good God yes, check. You see, ...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: Sesquicentennial, Part XLV: The End, Part Two
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Saturday, April 11, 2015. Sesquicentennial, Part XLV: The End, Part Two. That was an order! Steiner's attack was an order! How dare you ignore my orders? Adolf Hitler, 4/22/1945. Desk, in particular - were. Because this. Desk was in a particular city, at a particular place . the city, Richmond . the building, the Confederate White House. Echoes, if you should care enough to listen for them. Jefferson Davis' call f...
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Tim's Thoughtful Spot: The End of the Beginning
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In God We Trust. For everything else, there's cotter pins, safety wire, and speed tape. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. The End of the Beginning. Fifty-six years, six months, and fourteen days. That sounds like a long time, and in terms of a single human life, it is. But in terms of humanity's. I place the beginning of this era on the first of January 1959, with Luna 1's flyby of the Moon. Luna 1. Became the first to fly by Venus on the fourteenth of December in 1962. Well, sure. But Mercury is also really, ...