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Bryan Stewart
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Bryan Stewart
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"Half of everything can be explained by geography, and the other half by Shakespeare."
Maitland, FL Beigetreten Şubat 2016
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@SandyofCthulhu America's favorite drink is Bourbon, named after the family of our great benefactor King Louis XVI. We don't drink Danton or Robespierre in the USA.
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Yes we are very grateful to the government of Louis XVI. I forget … whatever happened with him?
medieval memelord@medievalmlord
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Such is the state of the USA in 2026; our space program can further the boundaries of human exploration and our president can misuse the word civilization.
Malapropisms and the Moon.
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…
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It gives me great pleasure to share that “Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare” is available now! If you followed my Sonnet-A-Day pandemic series, you’ll know the inspiration behind this project and the wonderful community that brought this to life.
All 154 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, recorded with commentary by yours truly, are now available: bit.ly/PatrickStewart…
@SimonAudio
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@MarcACaputo After 30 years, it was inevitable they'd come around to GOP-coding their candidates and commercials. Since all the other stuff hasn't worked.
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@orlandosentinel The fact the League of Women Voters is silent on Virginia and noisy about Florida tells everyone all they need to know about this organization.
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Redrawing congressional maps outside the usual census cycle violates the will of the people and costs taxpayer money. orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/07/com…
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Regicide, massacrer of Irish, beheader of Cavaliers. Is there anyone in British History one could hate more?
Stakeholder Consultant@echetus
I saw Cromwell’s death mask at the NPG and you would not believe how big Old Noll’s head was.
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Right before he died, Henry Kissinger observed the latest batch of college graduates had less general historical knowledge. They memorized less and read less on the presumption they could find a Wikipedia page for anything they needed to know. This lack of a general framework creates many blind spots and mistakes.
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Not long ago @romanhelmetguy posted course offerings from Harvard today and 100 years ago, and what struck me was the near total elimination of introductory survey courses (eg "Modern Europe from 1500-1789" or "English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare"). Instead they get highly politicized courses on very narrow subjects. So eburke here is right, but I would just add that Harvard makes little effort to provide a "common frame of reference." If the humanities courses must all be for beginners it's also because Harvard doesn't lay the groundwork for going deeper.
eburke@JamesWHankins1
Harvard students are highly intelligent and often brilliant but they have no common frame of reference, so that every class in humanities has to be for beginners. File under: Why humanities are increasingly held in contempt.
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Breakfast sausage to butternut squash. What’s on the menu for the Artemis II crew? cfpublic.org/space/2026-04-…
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LOLOLOLO. When I was a kid, the Times Square subway station was literally one of the most dangerous places in the world. Have you seen Death Wish, French Connection, Taxi Driver, Panic in Needle Park, Midnight Cowboy?
Alternatively: Have you read a book?
Kevin Sorbo@ksorbs
Look at this video of NYC in 1975, see how peaceful it was? Look at how everybody seems to be enjoying their lives, and not contrast it to today. Our country has been ruined.
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@ht_9944 If you go back through James VI & I and his grandmother Marie de Guise, you have all the Bourbons, Vendomes and Capets you could shake a stick at.
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@SandyofCthulhu Does this include the Confederate side? AP Hill, Jackson and Polk make three LT GEN fatalities. 3/14. 21% casualty rate.
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Also true in the American Civil War. More sergeants (proportionately) died than privates, more lieutenants than sergeants, and so on up the line even including major generals (15+ died). The only exception was Lieutenant Generals but there were only 2 the whole war.
Wandregisel 🇭🇺@Wandregisel98
Officers (i.e., nobility) died at a higher rate in WW1 across all the major powers
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@SketchesbyBoze @Lovandfear Never trust anything you read on the internet - Tom Bombadil.
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@Lovandfear Not a real Tolkien quote.
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@BardnanGael George Washington’s great-grandfather fought for King Charles I, as did the Lees. Hamilton and Monroe descended from Scottish lairds. Adams and Jefferson had Welsh heritage. Arguably half of the Continental Army was Ulster Scot.
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@travelingflying This is only true if you don’t count the Bronze Age
Bell Beaker people who colonized Ireland circa 2500 BC, displacing the preexisting Stone Age
Inhabitants.
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“Ireland didn’t colonize anybody; they were a colony. They suffered terribly. They were willing to be brutalized, occupied, starved, all of these things for centuries to defend their little slice of the world, and yet Ireland is on track to be a minority Irish by 2070. I don’t like that.
People think diversity means every place in the planet should look like Jackson Heights in NYC, but that’s not diversity at all. Diversity is that when I go to Ireland, it’s Irish.”
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What would need to happen for Florida to vote like this in 2028?
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If a constitution is the democracy of the dead, the interest rate is the economy of those who have yet to be born.
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