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@Steve_Sailer Barry Bonds mostly walked.

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@Steve_Sailer Caitlin Clark is an excellent soccer player.

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@hallofgoodpod Wish I could nominate Bill Doran and / or Terry Puhl. Loved following them as a kid (and there was not all that much else going on with the Astros offense pre-Killer Bs).

[charlesdickenspage.com @dap1955]

When I launched my Dickens website in 1997, I wanted to experience the novels spatially, as Dickens’ first readers might have. I began mapping the characters’ journeys through each story—and eventually shared them online.

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@eigenrobot Where do you think you are standing?

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@catholiccom Counterpoint: we have people who can play piano, but very few organists.

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@ASFleischman So your example is a case where a life sentence was vacated on habeas?

[JF Murphy @jfmurphy76]

Steven Bennett was an airborne artillery spotter in Vietnam in 1972 when he noticed North Vietnamese troops massing around a friendly position.

Eager to blunt the imminent attack, Bennett called for both air and artillery fire, but both were denied.

Consequently, Bennett positioned his slow moving and lightly armored plane to strafe the enemy. He and his co-pilot made four low level gun attacks, stymying the enemy, before his plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile.

Discovering that his co-pilot's parachute had been damaged by the missile, Bennett decided to try a water landing in the Gulf of Tonkin. The plane cartwheeled on landing and Bennett was caught in the sinking wreckage and drowned.

The observer survived to recount how Bennett had stayed with him when he could have jumped free on his own. Bennett was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. He was survived by his wife and his two year old daughter, Angela.

Please honor and remember this great American!

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@250YearsAgoLive A ship's a fool to fight a fort

[Peter Leithart @PLeithart]

Peter Brown's summary of one of the recently-discovered letters of Augustine: "we find Augustine, at the age of seventy-three (only three years before his death), interviewing a terrified country girl who described how her farm had been raided by slave traders. The poor child could not even speak Latin - only Punic. Her older brother translated for her. This was part of a dogged attempt by Augustine and his congregation to break a ring of slave-traders who operated (with the full protection of local bigwigs), out of the port of Hippo."

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@MidwestWeathe_r Help me understand. Weekend forecast across Iowa and Wisconsin is beautiful. What are you saying w this post?

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@historiclassics Fun game

GeoHistory · June 22nd
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https://t.co/yro3Mz0gln

[Jämes Läwrence @blazingmagnums]

Every Father's Day I'd like cinemas to have a "Dad Slop" slate. Shit like The Fugitive, Patriot Games, Lethal Weapon and Tombstone. Make it an all dayer and serve brews and biscuits between films. Printing money.

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

If you like history and maps I highly recommend this game

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https://t.co/prCtLHD0Tu

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

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@SandyofCthulhu @mikemovies Hot Fuzz is a masterpiece

[That Guy Rocked MLB @MLBGuyRocked]

Roy Oswalt

That guy rocked.

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@martysmavs @JTAlexander Anakin should have been the Han Solo of the prequels—a great pilot who was taken for Jedi training later in life…

[Shamanic Depressive Gymnosophist @sigilante]

We need a set of American emoji: coonskin cap, log cabin, Alamo, Texas, tomahawk, bathtub still, oil derrick, Johnny Appleseed pot hat, White House, steamboat, mountain man, gold nugget.

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@TedAlcorn @nytimes Ireland is REALLY dark.