Golly...
...I don't know where to start. I feel like I have so much.
Family, friends, country. Right now, sitting in my "man chair" with a cold one, typing posts and watching TV with my wife.
I'm also thankful for all the beautiful people here in the Lounge.
There are...
...a large number of issues at play here. Average height is only one aspect. The distribution of heights is a factor too. I'm also rather suspect of the data sources for averages before 1900.
During the history of the US, waves of immigrants has an effect on heights. People...
I guess...
...it doesn't surprise me. Every quarter when we get the bill for our small, local paper I wonder if I should pay it or cancel it.
It's not a bad little paper. They cover the archaeological work at Jamestown, and I'm not sure how I'd ever know any local news without them.
Interesting...
...but my impression is that boot type dress shoes were more a product of the horse-and-buggy-not-fully-paved-world. What's the current attraction?
Most of those...
...who fought under the flag never owned a slave and were fighting for their "country", which before the war was your state. Before the war people used "United States" in the plural, as in: "the United States are against that." National unity was not what it became after the...
Towns and Cities...
...are system of system solutions to specific human needs that reflect level of technology and environment.
Revitalization efforts fail when they dictate the answer and don't address the question "why".
When the bygone towns and cities people yearn for were built...
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