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Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Paraguay remembers Pres. Rutherford 'Baller' Hayes; still scarred by 1860s war, Paraguay nears election

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RBH & I at the Museo Municipal de Villa Hayes , Paraguay. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 UPDATE, May 10: The incumbent Colorado Party p...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Boosted twice by war, then by economic catastrophe, paper money tells the story of America

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Notaphilist, historian, and my uncle, Armand Shank yesterday gave a fascinating talk on the history of banking and paper currency in Maryla...
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Saturday, February 6, 2021

Attorney Scaturro talks monument metrics

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Grant monument in Chicago ( image CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Attorney Frank Scaturro has written an in-depth, four-part-essay series on monument destr...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

US President haunts African 'ghost capital'

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Main traffic circle in Canchungo, Guinea-Bissau. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . Throughout Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa, ch...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Federal court holds Syria liable to U.S. family for $300m in killing of journalist Marie Colvin

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Syria owes more than $300m in wrongful death damages to the family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed while working for the...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was kind of a pompous ass

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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ( FJC ), “the great dissenter,” was kind of a pompous ass.  That probably should not have surprised ...