I want that book!
The revival of the hedge.
hard to maintain with a machine, and sometimes they were ripped out in order to industrialize farms.
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I just found out the child who sings ānot when he looked so fierceā¦ā is actually Yoko Ono.
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Uhhhhhhā¦
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Iāve known that since I was a kidā¦but Iām MUCH older than you, Iām guessing. Plus, my older brother probably told me; he explained to me what āBand on the Runā was really about. I didnāt know till a couple years ago, it wasnāt āLive a litte/Be a gypsy/Get aroundā in that song: I thought it was 'Leedle, leedle/Be a gypsy/Get around". So donāt feel bad.
And Ringo sang āGood Nightā, which John wrote for his son Julian, because John was being a chickenshit at that point. He may also have been on heroin by then, as well.
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The āGood Nightā information, that I knew. If fact I know a lot of interesting stories behind the White Album, but somehow I missed that one. āBand on the Run,ā Iāve never heard and am not in a hurry to.
Iām disappointed that thatās Yoko singing. Having a little girl sing a few lines, so I thought, made the song kind of charming.
But I am impressed she can sing. I normally associate her with this sort of thing:
Remember, she was also a lot younger then.
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And now a word on equality from Lester Maddox. A man who closed his business four years earlier rather than serve African Americans.
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So, I like baseball. Iād rather play than watch, and if I have to watch, Iād rather watch films of it pre-1990s. Anyhow, my dad LOVED baseball, so much of what I learned was from him. It made him happy for me to listen, and I was genuinely interested to a degree.
ANYwho, he told me about the Washington Senators baseball teamās motto - which I thought came from WWII. I just found out I was wrong. Hereās the Wikipedia article about the man who came up with it, and heās a real character!
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It seems like this is part of a segment from 60 Minutes.
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āThre will be a restocking feeā 
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Is it just me, or does the Chinese government appear to want to wipe out all ancient history, or at the very least rewrite it?
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In the The crooked timber of Humanity, Isaiah Berlin speculates
The German revolt against France and French materialism has social as well as intellectual roots. Germany in the first half of the eighteenth century, and for more than a century before, even before the devastation of the Thirty Years War, had little share in the great renaissance of the West ā her cultural achievement after the Reformation is not comparable to that of the Italians in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of Spain and England in the age of Shakespeare and Cervantes, of the Low Countries in the seventeenth century, least of all of France, the France of poets, soldiers, statesmen, thinkers, which in the seventeenth century dominated Europe both culturally and politically, with only England and Holland as her rivals. What had the provincial German courts and cities, what had even Imperial Vienna, to offer? This sense of relative backwardness, of being an object of patronage or scorn to the French with their overweening sense of national and cultural superiority, created a sense of collective humiliation, later to turn into indignation and hostility, that sprang from wounded pride. The German reaction at first is to imitate French models, then to turn against them. Let the vain but godless French cultivate their ephemeral world, their material gains, their pursuit of glory, luxury, ostentation, the witty trivial chatter of the salons of Paris and the subservient court at Versailles. What is the worth of the philosophy of atheists or smooth, worldly abbĆ©s who do not begin to understand the true nature, the real purposes of men, their inner life, manās deepest concerns ā his relation to the soul within him, to his brothers, above all to God ā the deep, the agonising questions of manās being and vocation?
Historical myths matter. In the case of China, a divided middle kingdom is associated with famines and war (e.g. the Taiping Rebellion) and the centralized state capitalizes on this interpretation.
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Oh, Kaiser Bill was sooooo upset that nothing in Germany seemed to rival the city of Paris.