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who believe that humanity, unsatisfactory as it is, requires remoulding by them, so that it will take better shape in the future. (...) HUmanity, then, should be regarded as a tabula rasa, the blank slate upon which Mao Tse-Tung said that such beautiful characters could be written. Insofar as any
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There's nothing in the second amendment restricting the bearing of arms, unless you take the "well-regulated militia" part to imply exclusively male. However, that would be a matter of state law. And as Hulk notes, Annie Oakley was obviously not feeling restricted (except maybe by her corset).
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help form a well-regulated militia if he could aim and fire only moderately well with his toes? I'll say yes, but that constitution definitely left a lot of room for interpretation. Definitely freer than under the 190 billion pages of
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to the president, offering to fight the Spanish, before the war even started. She didn't try to hide the fact that she'd trained a 50-woman sharpshooter militia, or that she wouldn't have to borrow any ammo. No arrests. This was
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Did any European monarchs in the intervening years between the end of the Crusades and the modern era (1800s or 1900s depending on when Jerusalem became more accessible) took pilgrimages to Jerusalem or the Holy Land during this
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OK, that accounts for why it didn't make sense. As to "political correctness", it's important to keep in mind that right-wingers have their own version of "political correctness". ←
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was also fine about letting her shoot the ashes off his cigarette. I don't think the thesaurus has a word for that sort of coolness.
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Yesterday my teacher told me that American women were initially forbidden from bearing arms (until the 1960s). Is this true? --
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are also a bit different, going in "the middle" rather than "the left". Not that it matters, at least in this thread.
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following a hint of a seasoned wikipedian I'm trying this to find at the "reference desk" infos about the topic here:
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that you brought up that term. Be that as it may, you're talking in code. Plain English would be an improvement. ←
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Apparently, Henry of Bolingbroke visited Jerusalem in 1392, but this was before he ascended the throne as
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previous orators made the point that women weren't banned from bearing arms. And I didn't mention PC
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Funny. That might be a case of a headline writer not getting enough sleep. ←
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went in 1898 (there is a lengthy article about it on the German Knowledge,
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was there in 1869 when he was still Crown Prince of Prussia, and his son
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https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Taiko#meaning_of_the_demons_in_taiko.3F.3F
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awareness of the past is to be permitted, it should be as a
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Knowledge:Reference desk
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The Emperor's New Spy
talk
11:02, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Emperor Frederick III
Emperor Wilhelm II
de:Palästinareise Kaiser Wilhelms II.
Adam Bishop
talk
12:37, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Henry IV of England
Marco polo
talk
14:15, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Adam Bishop
talk
00:32, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Taiko#meaning_of_the_demons_in_taiko.3F.3F
HilmarHansWerner
talk
17:07, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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