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In 1776, we declared our independence from Great Britain. We successfully won the war and later adopted a constitution [...]
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Aloha This will be my last post regarding CCPro. I've been marketing CCPro as a consultant and [...]
The Line In The Sand »
In the first week of March 1836, William B. Travis told his troops at the old Misión San Antonio de [...]
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“Big Brother is watching you.” ~George Orwell I honestly don't know how much longer I can take [...]
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The Antiquarian of Herat
by Carlo Ungaro Diplomatic reminiscences from Herat in the 1970s; delicate interventions, fragile civil society. The beautifully kept grounds of the main Mosque in the western Afghan city of Herat are flanked by one of the town’s most attractive and busy streets. There, on an unbearably hot summer day of 1972, I came across a very [...]
The Morpheus Proposal
by Jim Davidson When we first meet her, the character Trinity is in a room numbered 303. Throughout the film, "The Matrix" there is a delightful motif of numbers. A little later, we meet the character "Neo" who, we are told is "the one." Obviously, Neo is an anagram of "one." We meet him for the first time in his room, 101.Numbers play a key role [...]








