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When slave states seceded, if ever. (Click on map to enlarge.) You can see three distinct tiers from south to north, with Virginia (which still included WV in 1861) the great anomaly, the only state to secede north of 36 30 . If Virginia doesn t secede in April 1861, then neither do VA s tag-along followers NC, TN, and AR.
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Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson announced on June 25th that, in effect, it’s too bad Pickett’s Charge of July 3, 1863 failed.
Until that day, though, if the federal government wants to build a fence that keeps the United States safe from the dangers of lower wages and poverty and their attendant ills and the all-round fruitcakery of the right-wing white South it should build that fence from Norfolk to Dallas. There’s nothing wrong with a fence, so long as you put it in the right place.
That night, the 56-year-old Lincoln went to see a play at Ford s Theatre under the watch of a new guard, a D.C. police officer named John Frederick Parker. Parker s dereliction of duty helped change U.S. history.
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Global warming: Myanmar, Greenland and green cars
By G. Dunkel posted on April 16, 2021
Greenland is the largest island in the world which is not a continent. Only it and Antarctica are covered by ice sheets. With 58,000 people, 89% of whom are Inuit, it remains a “semiautonomous region” under Danish rule whose main exports are fishery products and whose budget is heavily subsidized by Denmark.
In Narsak, Greenland, the fishing village closest to the proposed mine, many people know radioactive dust from uranium would be dangerous.
Global warming and the resulting melt of Greenland’s ice sheet are exposing mineral resources with potentially vast profits.