How the USA got Mexican land.
The USA actually paid Santa Anna for the land transferred to the USA (it wasn't cheap). It wasn't just "stolen". Santa Anna took the money. In addition, the USA assumed all debts that the Mexican government owed to American citizens. This was all laid out in the legal and binding treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Also all Mexican nationals living in the newly ceded territories were offered American citizenship.
Six years after the peace, the USA offered to buy more of Mexico - the Gadsden purchase which is now southern New Mexico. Santa Anna WANTED to make the Gadsden deal.
So the land handed over by Mexico was 100% legal. Not just conquered.
I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.
I hate Poland. Ever since I moved here, my life has gotten so much worse.
I pay less than 10% tax.
People leave racks of On shoes out with a sign: "Just try them."
My mom walks home alone at night in Warsaw and doesn't even call me anymore.
I wear a Rolex here without thinking twice. My laptop got stolen in Berlin.
I started a 25-person company in 3 weeks. In Germany, I'd probably still be waiting for a notary appointment.
Poland has made life way too easy.
Willie Nelson was such a big fan of THE LORD OF THE RINGS movies, he actually sent in an audition tape to Peter Jackson to be considered for Gandalf when he found out Jackson was making THE HOBBIT - and it's hilarious
@bigbrownson She was so high up she’d reach terminal velocity and die before she’d hit water. And if she somehow survived that, the water would be like concrete when she impacted it. Sticking with Meleys was her best bet and that was still a terrible one.
“Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offense or from insults or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society.”
— Ann Widdecombe
The Hobbit is a children’s book, and the fact that so many grown people find the syntax and language difficult just further shows how far we’ve fallen from a cliff intellectually since it was first published in 1937.
Graham Linehan was arrested for saying that if a man refused to leave a women only space he should be punched in the balls.
This woman exhorts her followers to kill those she disagrees with politically and suffers no consequences at all.
Make it make sense.
🇺🇸 He Kissed His Baby’s Photo Before Every Jump (USA – 101st Airborne, 1944)
Sergeant Michael Donnelly carried a photo of his newborn son tucked into his helmet strap. Every time he jumped—Normandy, Holland, Bastogne—he kissed it first.
He was killed in action in January 1945. 🕊️His fellow paratroopers returned the photo, folded with care, to his wife. On the back, he’d written, “Every time I fly, I land in you.”
#WWII #History
#FamiliesServeToo
Got tired of reading the kiddy books for bedtime and decided to read the Hobbit to my 6 & 7 year olds
I hadn’t read it since like 5th grade and it’s over the top linguistically advanced for kids
I thought they might struggle but they absolutely loved it
Every page they’d stop me 5+ times asking what certain words mean and I had to consistently stop and explain things but man I feel like it has been absolutely great for them (and me tbh)
Only classical novels from here on out at bedtime