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Deplorable taste and low-status interests. Fiction at https://t.co/HnKyByZ0aO
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Joined August 2023
"What if I say no?" "You go to jail." "What if I tell them about you?" "We would convince all the right people that you were lying, and then you would die in there." Free links to Part 2 of RUMOROSA below.
I wrote a short story about a Vietnam veteran hired by wealthy ranchers to assassinate an American Indian activist. Free text and audio links to RUMOROSA below.
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The Confederacy produced around 5000 copies of the Sharps carbine at the Robinson Arms factory in Richmond. Photo: Rock Island Auction Company
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๐ฝ๏ธ Discover the role of vUsd! Our new video explainer spotlights vUsd, Allbridge Coreโs invisible accountant. Watch now to see how it facilitates the cross-chain swaps!
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Unidentified Soldier: Company D 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles Confederate States of America
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"The cathedral was the House of God. This term was understood not as a pale, common place but as a fearful reality..."
INNOCENT X NEW EPISODE! โฑ ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โฑ โFor us, the symbol is an image that invests physical reality with poetical meaning. For medieval man, the physical world as we understand it has no reality except as a symbolโ (Otto Von Simson, The Gothic
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The Germans fought well in early battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater like Wilson's Creek, but they were also a recruiting boon for the Confederacy. Chuds from Southern Missouri were ambivalent about fighting for Virginia planters, but they hated "the goddamn Dutch." (3/3)
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Many of the "gymnasts" had military experience from the failed 1848 revolution in Germany. (2/3)
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In the 1850s, German immigrants in Saint Louis organized paramilitary fitness clubs. They became regular regiments in the Union army after the outbreak of the Civil War. These are the St Louis "Turners" (gymnasts) in 1860. Note that many are armed. (1/3)
Now reading this history of the Civil War in the West. It covers the guerrilla war in Kansas and Missouri + the Confederate-allied Indians and conventional fights in the Trans-Mississippi.
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"Do they ever sink?" The turtlehunter charged his rifle from a yellowed horn and slid a fresh ball down the bore. He recapped the lock, cradling the piece in his armcrook. "Some does, some dont. Quiet now, they be anothern directly." (3/3)
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It honked over the river and the echo drifted back in a gray smoke of sulphur and coke ash. The ball flattened on the water and rose and carried the whole of the turtle's skull away in a cloud of brainpulp and bonemeal. The wrinkled empty skin hung from the neck like a torn
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One of my favorite parts of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree is the turtle hunting scene: "The child buried within him walked here one summer with an old turtlehunter who went catlike among the grasses, gesturing with his left hand for secrecy. He has pointed, first a finger, then the
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"Heritage Americans: Where are your graven idols? Your enslaved Janissaries? Your odalisques and catamites, perfumed and hopeless? Nothing."
Whenever someone talks about heritage America or how their ancestors have been in America for 100, 200, 300, etc, years, I always wonder: Where are your heirlooms? Where is your family cabin upstate? Where is your family trust? Where is the town you've called home? Nothing.
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