H.D. Miller
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Historian, Blogger, Writer, Professor, Bon Vivant. My site is An Eccentric Culinary History: https://t.co/seXiUEIBq1
Nashville, Tennessee
Joined September 2009
This is for all my Central Valley homies, something I wrote a few years back about the disappearance of Tulare Lake and feeding the 49ers.
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The Chinese got caught faking a natural wonder? . Guess we're just about ready to have that special conversation about the terra cotta army.
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French sinologist Jean Levi is very skeptical of the authenticity of the Terracotta Army.
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@nocapmyg @DeepFriedToes_ Not even plural "seconds" just second from smashed. That was crazy.
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Kate Starbird is an example of how the distinguished old WASP families have collapsed into uselessness, if not Anti-American malevolence. Both of her grandfathers (Alfred Dodd Starbird and Charles Leonard) were US Army generals and Olympic athletes (in the pentathlon). Her two.
60 Minutes interviewed @katestarbird for their show on misinformation last night. Kate works at the University of Washington and for a misinformation research group that helped censor Americans during the 2020 election. In this interview she whined that old Twitter “only”
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@17cShyteposter I knew he was a good golfer, but not that good! At 78? Every drive right down the middle and his putting looks wrong, but he's draining them. They've been underselling his ability.
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A lot can be explained by knowing that Trump is half Scottish Highlander of the Clan McLeod.
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@UpdatingOnRome Viral video idea: Women ask their men, "How often do you think of Genghis Khan?".
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@peterthielswife The funny thing is that, before the 19th century, plenty of Japanese sailors made it to the West Coast of North America as castaways. But it was always a one-way trip.
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So Luigi Mangione, the valedictorian of his high school, killed Brian Thompson, the valedictorian of his high school.
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@CityBureaucrat Sumerian city-states, Greek city-states, Chinese warring states, Italian city-states, German statelets. The most dynamic and inventive periods of human history all occur during periods of intense regionalized competition.
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@Jeff_Jacoby Yes, we'd do well to follow Lincoln's example, throwing reporters and newspaper editors in jail.
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The a cappella Churches of Christ has probably been the most musically significant religious group of the past century. The following musicians were all raised in the Churches of Christ: Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Roy Orbison, Weird Al Yankovic, Glen Campbell, Dwight
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@RepRobertGarcia I agree! Expanding the court should be the first thing President Trump does in January, 2025.
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@DisgracedProp Borat was a funny movie, if you didn't pay much attention to the fact that he was punching way down at ordinary Americans.
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@yourboyeoye @DisgracedProp I'm skeptical of them being real. Seems possible that they were cooked up in the 1970s, given how the Chinese have prevented most outside archeologists from studying them.
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Southern universities were wild places before the Civil War. Southern gentlemen greatly resented taking orders from men they perceived as their social inferiors, a group they felt often included their professors.
Thomas Jefferson had high hopes for the University of Virginia. Then the first term students got drunk, disguised themselves as Indians, and threw urine through a professor’s window. Next, a group of masked students threw brick bats at professors who asked them to calm down.
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@DisgracedProp We're in the middle of a Joseph Tainter style collapse. The crisis of competency is real and all the indicators, great and small, are pointing down.
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@JoshRainerGold Get 40 miles inland and California is still deeply red. In 2016 and 2020, my home county (Tehama) was more pro-Trump than Alabama.
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@SophiaCai99 The interview started 35 minutes late because Rachel Scott's equipment wasn't working. Sounds like he gave them ten more minutes than he was supposed to.
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@innoc_bystander This why handsome young men who physically knock on doors will own the future.
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This Amish kid, CJ, speaks very good Arabic, a result of having spent 16 months in Jordan. He's the 5th of 8 children, and his family has a farm with a halal butcher and does a land-office business with Muslims in the Northeast. (It's called Shepherd Touch Farm.). Most people.
Amish guy from Pennsylvania speaks perfect Arabic. “Welcome everyone. We are here in Shepherds Dutch farm, here to show you our farm. I am a Amish person, but I speak a little bit of Arabic aH” . Credit: TikTok: maherkhalil2
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@FischerKing64 Trump is a legit political genius. There's no other way to understand his success in 2016 than that he's a uniquely gifted figure.
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@Empty_America I grew up food-stamp poor in rural California. Dropped out of college, joined the army, finished college at night at the age of 30, and ended up with a Yale PhD. It's still possible for smart kids to do well.
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@wanyeburkett This was why stop-and-frisk worked so well. People who carry illegal guns tend to have a ton of outstanding warrants.
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@jessesingal Donald Trump is one of the most consequential men in American history. It's hard for many to admit this, but it's absolutely true.
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@TSHamiltonAstro My official position is "maybe". Maybe they're real, maybe they're fake. But, it'd sure be nice if the Chinese let outside archeologists do some investigating.
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Interesting data point: 12 men have walked on the moon. 10 of them have Scots-Irish or Scottish ancestry: Armstrong, Aldrin, Bean, Shepherd, Mitchell, Scott, Irwin, Young, Duke and Schmitt.
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The chatty Trump is even batter than the public Trump. Incredible event.
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The Japanese are the only people who've ever really liked the Americans.
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@robkhenderson How about giving up 15 IQ points for 3" of height? That's a better question?.
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@eugyppius1 I'm not a Chesterton fan boy, but he's right about this. "Neo-Pagans have sometimes forgotten; when they set out to do everything that the old pagans did, that the final thing the old pagans did was to get christened.".
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From the Kroger Grocery weekly advertising circular August 2020 vs August 2024
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@AesPolitics1 @JDVance Vance had the exact same military job as Al Gore, combat correspondent. They both served in combat.
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@NewRightPoast Back in the day, garden clubs were a big deal, as upper middle class women vied to have a garden worthy of including on the annual garden tour. Beautiful homes and beautiful surroundings were once highly valued.
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@GreenPlusAnE Students at William and Mary were shooting at their professors. Before the war, Southern Gentlemen resented taking orders from people they perceived as their social inferiors.
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@CityBureaucrat The only Protestant on the SCOTUS and a Heritage American. Her children are Mayflower descendants.
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Hunting geese near Colusa, California, in 1915, using a trained steer as a duck blind.
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@HeerJeet Swift won't be endorsing Harris. She's hanging out with Patrick Mahomes's wife, who is know to be pro-Trump. Tay-tay won't endorse anyone, but she'll be seen publicly in the stands at Chief's games with lots of Pro-MAGA people. The message will be sent.
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@SamstheMan76 @sjbeasley @GraduatedBen @JackPosobiec I'm sorry this happened to you. It's not right. I pray that your parents come back to their senses.
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The sadness of realizing that many of your old friends and acquaintances reject you for supporting the Great Orange Evil One.
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@plzbepatient Trying to convince a journalist @JamesSurowiecki of that earlier today. Lots of church ladies are upset about it on Facebook.
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Never forget. 41 years ago today. I was working outside that day. It was pretty dang hot.
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@roddreher Hey, I'm a college professor and a rightist.
Lots of high fives today from young men on campus. Plenty of happy people.
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@smithpatrick08 In Eliot's favor, 20 million young men had just been slaughtered a few years earlier.
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@OGRolandRat Elite education and best-selling book means he’s has what they want but has rejected it.
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@brianschatz Let's ask the soldier's sister.
Wow. I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics- hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.
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@sandiechill @ProjectLincoln Acquitted? So, he was innocent of the charge. Thanks for letting me know.
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@peterthielswife Japan came pretty close to being fully engaged with the world at the beginning of the 17th century. They even sent an embassy to the Vatican in 1613. But then, they turned inward and closed their borders.
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@NewAtlantisSun I have to remind everyone that A Connecticut Yankee ends with the Boss becoming Pol Pot, raising an army of teenagers and machine-gunning any opposition to his Year Zero approach.
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@JodyHood18 @mandersonville @timburchett The republicans are the party of pretty girls, young men of all ages and normal people everywhere. The democrats are the party of angry broken women and the weak men who enable them.
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@Edward__Bernays And Trump's a boomer who grew up in the Stone Age but who became the greatest social media poster of all time. Some people are just naturals.
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@burackbobby_ nah. He'll instantly become one of the most popular among people who actually watch sports.
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@RickDeVos Literally, who is the market for this? Who is going to decide to read the NYTimes based on this?. It's just aimed at reassuring existing NYTimes readers they're not bigots for hating J.K. Rowling.
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@UpdatingOnRome That's not even a real question. I have to help run them to the Tarpeian Rock.
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@georgiagirlsara @ChrisCillizza Trump was at the NABJ and took questions. Why did Kamala no show up? She's running scared.
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@jessesingal Trump riffing like this is him speaking to ordinary people. He's funny. It's FDR's fireside chat for the 21st century.
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@AlmostMedia The German rejection of nuclear is ridiculous. The French are rolling in cheap energy while the Germans are becoming the definition of Europoor.
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Trump correctly understands that length off the tee is a proxy for presidential competency.
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@mattyglesias Look at the follower numbers. This was an impersonator account that was ripping off the real account.
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