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They are probably coloring whole counties, where the second map just makes a dot for each country proportional to population.

Never-nesters, empty-nesters, and second marriages combined. It would be interesting to trace cohorts through time.

If you want to see the sun rise Honey, I know where We’ll go out and see it sometime We’ll both just sit there and stare Me with my belt wrapped around my head And you just sittin’ there In your brand new leopard-skin pillbox hat

Tall-shaming, too, tsk tsk

Does it still count if there’s nothing left to shoot?

So ten years ago visiting I was told about this earlier race of redheaded people as archaeological theory based on incomplete evidence, but like something that was an active question. But now the story is very different and I guess the government has officially acknowledged that it was just a way to undermine the Maori treaties and reparations.

Nope, but I think that one’s been done before. This one’s more about the hat.

Holy shit, dude, don’t put that in your body!

“I hope and pray that our Government will not listen to the ex-parte statements of the old rulers of these States, many of whom are still traitors at heart, and even now are seeking to grasp again the political power under the old flag,” Saxton added. “It will be bad for the Freedmen if these men again get into power.”

It wasn’t long before Saxton’s fears became a reality. In April 1865, just a month after creating the Freedmen’s Bureau, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, was an avowed white supremacist who moved quickly to pardon many former Confederates and return their land.

“[Johnson] used executive power very, very skillfully to undermine transfer of land to Black people, and to really hamstring the Freedmen’s Bureau,” said Donald Nieman, a history professor at Binghamton University. He added that Johnson acted out of personal prejudice toward the freedmen, but also political expediency. “By restoring land and by giving pardons to the former landowners in the South, he thought he could make that group of people beholden to him politically.”

I’ve seen these only twice, skimming over an overgrown grass field next to my college campus, and kiting around the treetops of a beetle infested lakeside forest. Their calls when flying were what attracted everyone’s attention to look for them in the gloom. But none of us had seen them more than a couple times. They didn’t come back the next night to either place.