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From 2014: During President Jefferson's administration, The Barbary states got carried away and demanded exorbitant ransoms for the release of US sailors. The ransoms got so high as to equal 1/6th of the entire US budget. The cold calculation by Jefferson was that it was cheaper to fight a war than to pay the ransoms. So, we quit paying and went to war.
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A person pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the lawmaker's husband in an act of targeted political violence. The assailant also shot and severely injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, both shootings possibly because of votes by both legislators to cut benefits to illegal aliens.A person pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the lawmaker's husband in an act of targeted political violence. The assailant also shot and severely injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, both shootings possibly because of votes by both legislators to cut benefits to illegal aliens.
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Father's Day did not become a national holiday until 1972. Why did it take so long to pass into law, unlike Mother's Day, which was quickly embraced? The idea of Father's Day being similar to Mother's Day, for fathers, it didn't have the same appeal. As one historian writes, men ''scoffed at the holiday's sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products-often paid for by the father himself.''Father's Day did not become a national holiday until 1972. Why did it take so long to pass into law, unlike Mother's Day, which was quickly embraced? The idea of Father's Day being similar to Mother's Day, for fathers, it didn't have the same appeal. As one historian writes, men ''scoffed at the holiday's sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products-often paid for by the father himself.''
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Millions are living and working near Mt. Rainier in Washington, and many don't know it is an active volcano.Millions are living and working near Mt. Rainier in Washington, and many don't know it is an active volcano. Mount Rainier is one of the most potentially deadly volcanoes in the United States. In 1989, it was declared a ''decade volcano'' to be studied during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). Mount Rainier was chosen as a decade volcano because of the hazards it poses to the highly populated areas surrounding it, the large quantity of ice and snow covering its slopes, and its extensive - but vastly unstudied volcanic history.
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One of our children, who knows about such things, baked brownies for my wife Hazel to help her with pain when she was fighting cancer in 2019. Here is the recipe.
One of our children, who knows about such things, baked brownies for my wife Hazel to help her with pain when she was fighting cancer in 2019. Here is the recipe.
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