My academic career can be summed up in two words: Article XIX

[rdchino]

I just encountered one of those weird, completely random research moments that nobody will care about but me.  My M.A. thesis involved the anti-Chinese movement in California in the 1860s and 1870s.  In 1879, Article XIX became part of the second California Constitution, which stated that "no corporation now existing or hereafter formed under the

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[tim_wright]

Thank god I got Indians, women, and liquor.

[rdchino]

Yeah, your research is pretty glamorous. All I have is smog, redwood forests, aqueducts, and Ronald Reagan. No liquor, no women. But there is an Indian tribe in Round Valley (that does not get drowned because Reagan canceled the Dos Rios Dam)!