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    kluurs
    wrote on 2 Oct 2022, 04:26 last edited by
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    This is Mrs. Robert E. Lee. The child is their son, Robert E Lee Jr.
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      2 Oct 2022, 04:26

      This is Mrs. Robert E. Lee. The child is their son, Robert E Lee Jr.
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      taiwan_girl
      wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 00:29 last edited by
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      @kluurs But that is not the general Robert E Lee, correct? Is that his son? Seems like pictures were not around when General Lee was that age.

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        2 Oct 2022, 04:26

        This is Mrs. Robert E. Lee. The child is their son, Robert E Lee Jr.
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        LuFins Dad
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        @kluurs said in Mildly interesting:

        This is Mrs. Robert E. Lee. The child is their son, Robert E Lee Jr.
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        That’s not at all unusual for the time. It was actually common practice among higher ranked families in Europe and the US for boys to wear dressing gowns until they were 6-8 years old. The whole thing was called breeching, when the boy would graduate to pants.

        The Brad

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          Mik
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          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            Copper
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              3 Oct 2022, 15:13

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              jon-nyc
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              @Copper

              Interesting.

              Something else mildly interesting, I met her and her husband when they were selling some homegrown software to a client I had in the early 90s.

              Only non-witches get due process.

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                Only non-witches get due process.

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                    Horace
                    wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 12:12 last edited by
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                    Marsupial pouches are like the redneck ingenuity of evolution.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                      bachophile
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                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on 6 Oct 2022, 17:32 last edited by
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                        Only non-witches get due process.

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                          George K
                          wrote on 6 Oct 2022, 19:27 last edited by
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                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            LuFins Dad
                            wrote on 6 Oct 2022, 19:35 last edited by
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                            @George-K said in Mildly interesting:

                            I was waiting for them to attack each other…

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                              George K
                              wrote on 8 Oct 2022, 00:05 last edited by
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                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                Copper
                                wrote on 8 Oct 2022, 02:28 last edited by
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                                We have a couple of Great Blue Herons on the golf course.

                                If you walk close to one and startle it sitting at the edge of a pond, it will really get your attention when those wings unfold.

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                                  Axtremus
                                  wrote on 8 Oct 2022, 12:30 last edited by
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                                  History of PDF:

                                  https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-532-peter-wyatt-and-duff-johnson-on-30-years-of-pdf/

                                  Radio interview of two PDF veteran technologists on how PDF has evolved in the last 30 years. You can download the audio for offline listening, I believe.

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                                    wrote on 8 Oct 2022, 15:56 last edited by
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                                    Only non-witches get due process.

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                                      George K
                                      wrote on 8 Oct 2022, 16:53 last edited by
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                                      The brain pathologist, Edward Charles Spitzka, who did the autopsy on Garfield's assassin (Charles Guiteau) found that Guiteau's brain was structurally abnormal, perhaps predisposing him to insanity.

                                      The man who examined the brain of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was Edward Anthony Spitzka, the son of the other Spitzka.

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        kluurs
                                        wrote on 9 Oct 2022, 04:06 last edited by
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                                          9 Oct 2022, 04:06

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                                          Klaus
                                          wrote on 9 Oct 2022, 09:21 last edited by
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                                          @kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

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