Said story, especially knowing the ending going into reading the book.
Just show that no matter where you are from, your background, etc., people are pretty much the same all over the world - with the same hopes, dreams, dramas, concerns, etc.
Sort of off a tangent:
It's not unusual that the military and other civilian employers/institutions/sports leagues adopt different standards for what health conditions are or are not disqualifying.
@jon-nyc said in > 300,000:
Not long ago I was registered in Kings county as well as Westchester.
I moved a few weeks before the mayoral primary that saw DeBlasio get elected due to his son’s afro. I joked at the time about driving down to Brooklyn and voting against him. I was not yet registered here, so maybe it even would have been legal.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Teenager Who Killed Millions:
@Jolly said in The Teenager Who Killed Millions:
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Teenager Who Killed Millions:
There would have been a war anyway.
Between who?
Between everybody
The people to blame weren't Serbian terrorists but the leaderships of the countries involved, and also the Prussian culture following the Franco-Prussian war in the 19th century.
It could still have been avoided after the assassination of Ferdinand if people had wanted to, or had fully appreciated how things were going to end.
The $64 question...If Ferdinand had not been assasinated, would we still have had a world war? Or simply a regional conflict such as the Franco-Prussian War? Or no war?
@Copper said in Merry Christmas:
cnn appears to have missed it.
It was from 2017...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-harris-fumed-americans-saying-merry-christmas-before-illegal-migrants-protections
@bachophile said in The Radio Fight:
during my cross country trek was how little cellular (meaning internet) coverage in the open spaces of the states.
Indeed, that's something I became aware of on our Amtrak travels. Eastern Montana, some parts of Mississippi - nothing.
@jon-nyc Margaret Hague maternity (named for the mother of longtime Jersey City mayor and political boss Frank “I am the law” Hague) was part of the Jersey city medical center, at the time quite a famous hospital. My maternal grandparents who emigrated from Europe went to Jersey City upon starting life in the new world and that’s where my mom grew up.
But alas, we moved to Manhattan and that’s where I grew up so although technically I was born in NJ, I am still a native New Yorker. I have no emotional attachment to the garden state.
and yes, I am old. So sue me.
