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The union headed most by the American business owners was definitely the iww or the wobblies

It's funny and kind of ironic but ponyboy received his copy of gone with the wind right around the same time I did. I remember being very excited to start reading it when I was about 13 or 14

And is desperate attempt to thwart his grandfather's murder, why didn't the protagonist just stay with his grandfather the entire night up until 3:00 a.m.? I realized you didn't want to drink with him, but it seems like that would be a minor trade-off. I'll have to ask AI

The product that sold out from this chapter it smells like a vagina candle was actually hilarious. Martha Stewart said it said more about the horniness of men than anything else. It was probably mostly men that bought it

I think the book does a great job of explaining why having the trap work in your life is not necessarily a great thing. Because in order for it to work the event you want to change has to happen on the first day of the trap. Also he found that for instance when he got girls to like him by that psychic business, afterwards they found out there wasn't much to him and they all lost interest.

It seems that in addition to the bee stings, coffee enemas were also frowned upon. Not to mention Moon dust and sex dust. The more I read about this woman the more she sounds to be a very much conceited Hollywood starlet. I don't like her

Bee sting therapy ended up being a very bad idea for goop g o o p. People sort of started dying from anaphylactic shock

Just as Jackson went out militarily with his victory in new orleans, he went out as a statesman with his late presidential term victory of having his record expunged. He was accused of abusing power earlier on in his presidency and he managed to get that off his record.

The treaty of Lusanne was considered to be a great diplomatic victory for turkey. It officially ended the war between the allies and the Ottoman empire which is going on since World war I

I didn't like the end where I felt they kissed Bill Gates but a little too much. Making him sound like he's a great humanitarian when really he's behind agenda 2030. Also they were proclimate change and pro vaccine. But I did love the history

The Panama canal officially opened on August 14th 1914

Walter Reed was credited with linking yellow fever to a particular mosquito. Unfortunately he died prematurely in 1903 of a ruptured appendix, but not before crediting all of his colleagues and researchers for the award.

Coffee, along with the patriotic idea of spurning tea in favor of it; was also thought to have antimalarial properties.
Perhaps Starbucks owes a toast to the tiny mosquito.

The term Cajun is a derivative of the longer word Acadian

The book ends with Ransom severely injured and a mysterious transformation from the Crux into the woman known as Odessa

Ralph Waldo Emerson said this, do not go where the path may lead instead make your own path and leave a trail

A reference to Bob Watson the baseball player who played for both the Astros and the yankees. I found this obscure reference to be exhilarating

I found out that the derogatory term Coon came from the word barricoon. It was the name for a British shanty town in africa. It's all they could muster up because they were brutalized by the mosquito

I always thought the two princes just died in the tower, but this book puts for the idea that maybe they survived at least one of them and became the boy. This boy was always trying to surf King Henry VII

I kind of knew this already, but the Apache sure sounded like one nasty tribe to deal with

For the most part of this book, King honey the seventh is made out to be a person obsessed with someone trying to take over his reign. He is hated by the people because of his excess taxes and cannot understand why they won't go fight for him. They have to hire mercenaries. He even suspects his own wife of treachery

Not sure why they're talking about the canary islands, because they are off the coast of Morocco way over in Africa.

I enjoyed the literary references, most importantly the Leonard Cohen song Anthems, which was beautiful the first time I saw it.
Unfortunately, I got lost in the murder mystery. FOr insntance, if it was exclaimed, I dont understand why the CC character got murdered via an elaborate electrocution.

Psalm 46:10, be still and know that I am God that is thought provoking

An interesting but not uncommon Quebec weather phenomenon is that it often snows and has Sunshine at the same time

Peter was involved in a habit that drove his wife crazy. He kept repeatedly stopping movies at a certain place and playing them over and over again. This reminded me of Stephanie and I in The Simpsons. It used to upset Yvonne

Another way the mosquito has changed the course of history was in Hannibal's attempt to take over rome. He got all the way to Rome, and he was thwarted by the pontine marshes in the mosquitoes that cause malaria there. He needed to have a siege not a quick strike deal and obviously The siege was not possible

Another famous poem, a 1722 one by Jonathan Swift is alluded to here. " And that's the reason people think he left behind so great a stink on quote, refers to a general who had a foul legacy. The name of the poem was A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Famous General

The story of Frankenstein is alluded to here when one of the characters thinks of the quote, the monster is dead and the villagers are celebrating. As he walked into a bar

I wonder if the boxing day tradition of going over unsolved murders is continued on through the series. Supposedly every boxing Day the inspector and his wife spend a quiet day at the Sureyey, going over unsolved mysteries.