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USS New York Being Built With WTC Steel by Katrina Survivors

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Old steel mills in Pittsburgh are being fired up to melt beams from Oklahoma City’s Federal Building, wings from Pearl Harbor and salvaged pieces of the Lusitania. The government is still trying to incorporate fragment’s of the Alamo, panel’s from Space Shuttle Columbia and wood from Custer’s Last Stand. The Smithsonian donated the only surviving [...]

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I Miss My Alma Mater: Robert E. Lee High School

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I graduated from Lee High School in San Antonio, TX. Lee High School Alma Mater We all hail† to thee and thy name forever, Robert E. Lee High; Your Red and Gray will always wave As will your banner fly; Our hearts and loyalty remain forever In your hallowed halls; Your majesty will show the [...]

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Bush’s Wall against Mexico is 89 Years Too Late

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Zimmerman Telegraph Interception in WWI A forgotten fact about WWI is the interception of the Zimmerman Telegraph. Germany wanted to divert the US away from the war overseas. So their Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman instructed the German ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt via a telegram to convince Mexico to attack the United States. It was VERY [...]

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Do Trojans Defend?

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I’m confused why a company would choose the Trojans as their symbol. I’ve tried to create a logical analogy between modern condoms and the ancient battle between the Greeks and the Trojans: The Greeks embodied a man and the Trojans personified a woman, the wooden exterior of the horse would have symbolized a condom, the [...]

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Gary Swanson lived a spartan lifestyle.

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Gary was raised in an opharnage and lived in the dorms during college. After graduation, he never owned a car and although he always used public transportation was extremely punctual, and let’s not forget that Gary also fought off the Persians at the battle of Thermopylae.

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