Two anniversaries
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50 years since Yuri Gagarin's flightI'm sometimes a little bit sad that I'm really too young to remember the time when human space flight was something exciting and worthwhile. I suppose the Challenger disaster in 1986 really marked the end of that time. Quite a few people in the 1960s would have been not only disappointed but quite ( Read more... )
50 years since Yuri Gagarin's flightI'm sometimes a little bit sad that I'm really too young to remember the time when human space flight was something exciting and worthwhile. I suppose the Challenger disaster in 1986 really marked the end of that time. Quite a few people in the 1960s would have been not only disappointed but quite ( Read more... )
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I'm sometimes sad that I do. Those were remarkable times, filled with hope and glory. I'm sorry to this day that when we landed on the moon, we didn't claim it as United States territory, because I think if we had, there'd be half a dozen coutries there today maintaining their own claims.
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the differences of opinion between (in crude terms) those who believe it was mostly about slavery and those who believe it was mostly about states' rights don't look like being bridged any time soonIt's a shame that they chose to interview a park ranger. The Park Service's official policy is that the Civil War was a war to end slavery, pure and simple. They go so far as to assert that there were absolutely zero black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy, none whatsoever, not a single one, although they're simultaneously at some considerable pains to draw attention to blacks who took up arms in the ( ... )
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