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   vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago

   unfortunately, lincoln’s bday wasn’t observed in the south for a long time. that fourth of july wasn’t celebrated in town until 1941. and, some people to this day, still hate general sherman.
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   ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

   @vwdualnomand

   Darned right they should hate Sherman! He was too darn CONSIDERATE to the southerns! Should’ve married off the ‘flowers of Southern womanhood" to former slaves, and had the Southern men tattooed black all over the body! Then maybe the South wouldn’t BE the centre of misery for America and the world! All that cockamamie stuff about the War of Northern Aggression—sheesh! First they get the Missouri Compromise, then the Fugitive Slave Act, the Dred Scott decision, but it wasn’t enough, oh no, then the Southern sods say ‘oh don’t elect Lincoln or we’ll secede!" Well, boo-hoo-hoo you slave-owning jerks, no more of that ‘let me win or I’ll take my ball and go home!" God! A hundred and forty-some years on and the South is still trying to steal elections! Seriously, what will it take, does the South have to get the same treatment the Third Reich did?
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   ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

   Also, Maria, when in doubt go for Lincoln; he may not be the correct answer in this case, but Lincoln is always the MAN! Also, if you want to drive your teachers further insane, point out this; Benedict Arnold was the go-to guy for the Revolution at the start; Washington wasn’t even an also-ran! Furthermore, Washington was the first American millionaire, because he cheated on his expenses!
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   Bob said, 3 months ago

   @ghostkeeper

   Down boy!
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   LadyJ4 said, 3 months ago

   But Washington can not tell a lie…
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   Stella S said, 3 months ago

   @LadyJ4

   I’ll bet that was a lie.
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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   @ghostkeeper

   Wow! Still fired up over things that happened 150 years ago? Deep breath, dude.
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   phritzg said, 3 months ago

   Those who do not learn from history class are doomed to repeat history class…in summer school.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

   @phritzg

   I used a similar gag in an unsold strip in the 80’s. Parts of the strip evolved into Patty-Cake.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

    Don’t forget both Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin were born this day in 1809.
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    comicsssfan said, 3 months ago

    @ghostkeeper

    “Furthermore, Washington was the first American millionaire, because he cheated on his expenses!”
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    I thought that was Thomas Hancock, John Hancock’s uncle.
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    ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

    @comicsssfan

    I may be wrong about George being the first American millionaire. I suppose I could even argue against myself about George cheating on his expenses. That said, the man did submit an almost-unholy bill for his expenses to the Continental Congress for his first year as General; as I recall my history lessons, it was after that that Congress put Washington on a straight salary!
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    ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

    @lightenup

    What can I say, I just finished reading “Confederates in the Attic.” To think that there is a Confederate catechism, all about the evil North and bad Lincoln . . . revisionist history is one thing, but to make the Confederacy a religion?
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    ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

    @LadyJ4

    That came about from Parson Weem’s ‘biography’ of George Washington, published in the 1820s. Huh, I just realized, Parson Weems could arguably be said to have written the first American celebrity bio . . . People magazine, Hello!, Glamour, reality tv, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” “Honey Boo Boo”, all and more owe their existence to Parson Weems!
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

    @ghostkeeper

    First American… maybe- but I have a feeling that kind of stuff goes back even further. Commercialism and superficiality aren’t all that new. The Seven Wonders of the World were first named so by ancient Greeks trying to encourage the tourist industry. They were a bucket list of places to visit- and spend some dough while visiting.
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