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#772623
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The Historical Discussion Thread: All Discussion Pertaining to History is Welcome
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moviefreakedmind said:

I recently found a nearly 120 year old anthology book of historical primary documents that was being given away for free at my local library. It's pretty interesting to read, and the footnotes are pretty cool since they come from historians of a time when the Spanish-American War (which they refer to as the "Spanish War") was a current event

 Wow, that's neat. My family inherited a large number of books from a school that shut down and was purchased for use as a factory by my dad's family, so we have a lot of history books from around the time of World War II, and some older. In grades 8 and 9, when I was homeschooling, in addition to my more up-to-date resources, I used a book from 1929 and another from 1946. It can be interesting to see the perspectives of the authors in relation to the way we view things now. The one book suggested current or recent newspapers and magazines for further reading on World War II. :)

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#771995
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Last movie seen
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TV's Frink said:

thejediknighthusezni said:

TV's Frink said:

I was just pointing out the really dumb formatting in the post above mine.

        I'm trying to keep up with the kids and their TextSpeak.

 What the hell are you talking about?  Kids don't indent when texting.

 Nor do they capitalize or make any effort to spell things correctly.

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#770707
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What Special Edition changes (if any) did people like?
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Discussions of almost any kind are boring when everyone is too serious and strict about keeping to the topic. I like serious discussion, but I don't like it being serious all the time. Sometimes I make a super lame joke because the rest of the discussion is a bit dull/slow, but usually I make good jokes.

EDIT: As an aside, I wouldn't have teased you if I thought it was a typo. I thought you had just screwed up the expression.