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Today In History: Pancho Villa Raids The United States

Friday, March 9th, 2007

March 9th: Today in 1916 the forces of Mexican revolutionary Doroteo Arango Arámbula, better known as Pancho Villa raided the small New Mexico town of Columbus and destroyed it. The raiders struck early in the morning and caught the town and a nearby garrison of cavalry by surprise. Villa’s men destroyed the commercial center of [...]

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George Washington’s Farewell Address In Today’s Speech

Monday, March 5th, 2007

XKCD is a great little web comic that I discovered today has a nice little blog attached to it. In January they posted up a great little translation of George Washington’s Farewell Address that I think does a pretty good job of translating it into today’s simpler form of speech. I actually just reread the [...]

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