Kerry Spicer
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Kerry Spicer
@FW_Spike
Historiaint, Autodidactyl, Succinctophile, Tsundokust
Texas Katılım Eylül 2016
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@MoMohler @darkvdred This is the 15th time I've seen this exact same post this week. Why the F is that?
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@3YearLetterman "French" brandy giving off strong treason vibes.
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Traces of Texas reader R Burk Morris thoughtfully submitted this photo of his grandfather, Charles Sylvester "Ves" Morris (1883-1964), in his store in Archer City, Texas. R Burk didn't say when this was taken but Sylvester looks to be in his late 20s so probably about 1910 or so. Sylvester's father, James Alfred "Jim" Morris (1863-1937), had opened the general and feed store after he moved to Archer City from the Indian Territory. Notice the Shinola white and black shoe polish on the counter. There's a joke in here about knowing something from Shinola, but this is a PG page so I'm not going to make it. 🙂
Thank you, R Burk. Cool family artifact!

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Post a photo you took, that you love ❤️

mattsince1978@membersince2011
Post a photo you took, that you love ❤️
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@ehartel @ByJonHarris @TheBuffaloNews Yeah, I suspect a broken heart of an old man without wife or kids.
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You probably won't see another obituary like this today, as seen in today's edition of @TheBuffaloNews.

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When Shackleton traveled to the Antarctic aboard the Endurance, he brought an impressive collection of books with him.
Great men read!
Below is the list of titles he had aboard:
Encyclopedia Britannica
Seven short plays by Lady Gregory
Perch of the devil by Getrude Atherton
Pip by Ian Hey
Plays: pleasant and unpleasant, Vol 2 Pleasant by G B Shaw
Almayer's folly by Joseph Conrad
Dr Brewer's readers handbook
The Brassbounder by David Bone
The case of Miss Elliott by Emmuska Orczy
Raffles by EW Hornung
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
Pros and cons: a newspaper reader's and debater's guide to the leading controversies of the day by JB Askew
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Woman's view by Herbert Flowerdew
Thou Fool by JJ Bell
The Message of Fate by Louis Tracy
The Barrier by Rex Beach
Manual of English Grammar and Composition by Nesfield
A book of light verse
Oddsfish by Robert Hugh Benson
Poetical works of Shelley
Monsieur de Rochefort by H De Vere Stacpoole
Voyage of the Vega by Nordenskjold
The threshold of the unknown region by Clements Markham
Cassell's book of quotations by W Gurney Benham
The concise Oxford dictionary
Chambers biographical dictionary
Cassell's new German-English English-German dictionary
Chambers 20th Century dictionary
The northwest passage by Roald Amundsen
The voyage of the Fox in Arctic seas by McClintock
Whitaker's almanac
World's end by Amelie Rives
Potash and perlmutter by Montague Glass
Round the horn before the mast by A Basil Lubbock
The witness for the defence by AEW Mason
Five years of my life by Alfred Dreyfuss
The morals of Marcus Ordeyne by William J Locke
The rescue of Greely by Commander Winfield Scott Schley
United States Grinnell Expedition by Dr Kane
Three years of Arctic service by Greely
Voyage to the Polar Sea by Nares
Journal of HMS Enterprise by Collinson

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@RobProvince Welcome. You waited for @iowahawkblog to leave the country?
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@BBHerodotus Peacefield for Adams, Stormfield for Twain. Both fabulous.
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Migrants not only retain their preferences, they reshape the policies and institutions of the places they migrate to.
E.g. Southern whites who migrated after the Civil War spread Confederate culture.
Big lesson here for all immigrant places.

The Review of Economic Studies@RevEconStudies
The Confederate diaspora—small but powerful and ideologically intense—reshaped culture across the U.S. through influence, organizational mobilization, and political leverage. New paper by @SamuelBazzi, @Andreas_Ferrara, Fiszbein, @tpearson_tweets, and Testa: restud.com/the-confederat…
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Wrote 10 million songs, every single one an absolute banger, the undisputed GOAT
VintageCountryMusic@realcountry1953
Easy.
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