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Zimmerman Telegraph Interception in WWI

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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 tempting for the Mexican president, Venustiano [...]

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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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The First Romeo and Juliet

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It’s sad to say, but couples in interracial relationships today still encounter ignorant xenophobes.As difficult as they seem to be, they compare nothing to the challenges faced by our ancestors. In 1999, an archeologist in Portugal discovered a 24,500 years old hybrid skeleton created by a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalenis) and a Cro-Magnon(Homo sapien). Inter-species relationships [...]

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The Sun Viking Hotel

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The last time I went to the beach, I stayed at The Sun Viking Hotel, which had an enormous 50 foot, gaudy, plaster Viking statue in the parking lot. It was a family hotel, and a bunch of kids were running around with souvenir axes and horned helmets. How cute? Then I remembered back to [...]

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A Riddle

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Q. What do all these individuals have in common? Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Edison, Vince Lombardi, Alexander Hamilton, and Grover Cleveland. A. Washington got a bridge, Lincoln got a tunnel, but these “lucky” folks are immortalized in the form of rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike (click here). What an honor. Although, I [...]

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