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Thomamelas
Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
So that man is Harry T. Burns. Besides being handsome as all get out, and a snappy dresser he was noted for switching from wearing a red rose to a yellow one. This would be the most historically significant act in his life. Well after listening to his mother. He was elected to the Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1918, representing McMinn County. In the summer of 1920, Tennessee called a special session to vote on the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the one regarding women's suffrage. Burns had announced that he intended to vote against the amendment. It was expected that the Amendment would not be ratified. The projected outcome of the vote was to be 48-49. But then he got a letter from his mother. It's seven pages so I'll give you the relevant section.
Hurrah and vote for suffrage! Don't keep them in doubt! I notice some of the speeches against. They were bitter. I have been watching to see how you stood, but have not noticed anything yet. Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the "rat" in ratification.
Your mother
Burns was the final legislator called on, with the vote split 48-48 it was assumed that the anti-suffragists had won. Burns was wearing a red rose. The suffragists had been using the yellow rose as their symbol and the anti-suffragists had adopted the red rose. But Burns reached into his pocket, removed a yellow rose he had there and replaced the red rose in his lapel. Then he voted aye. With his vote, the Amendment passed 49 to 48. Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution and it became the law of the land.
When asked about why he changed his mind,
“I knew that a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification,” he said. “I appreciated the fact that an opportunity such as seldom comes to a mortal man to free 17 million women from political slavery was mine.”
Oh and then he sent a telegram to his mother.
"On their return from Nashville Photographers of New York papers may stop over there. Thought best to let you know if you cannot come to Nashville leaving there tonight. I will try to leave for Niota tomorrow pm (?). Am tired but ok fight apparently won but settled tomorrow. Harry."
Oh and really, it's not complete with a picture of his mother.
If you want to read the full text of the letter his mother sent him, you can go here.
http://cmdc.knoxlib.org/cdm/search/searchterm/Burn
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Faces pressed against the glass, looking in on our freedoms longingly.
If you looked at the percentage of americans living within 100 miles of the US-canadian border on our side, it would not be so many.
Thom did that all from memory and drew those pictures himself.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the second professor I've had who taught in China before moving to the US, and both of them have done the following (taken from ratemyprofessor)
"This guy is really awful. He's completely unclear with what he wants and is very condescending and rude when you try to ask him for clarification. He has students do presentations every class so that he doesn't ever have to actually teach. He misspells and mispronounces everything, then he tries to criticize our writing or presenting ability."
this guy also has additional layers to his shit sandwich, he changed the presentation order on the website after establishing it in class. Thankfully we texted the group that thought they had 3 weeks to prepare so they're good. The teacher also gets angry when you ask for clarification
and I wasn't kidding last night when I said he offers bonus points to students who can do their work in chinese
I have a bunch on tap. Usually posts I made from the Cool History Thread but sometimes I use Instant Watch Film Society write ups. I have them in a gmail draft for quick copy and pasting.
also, there are probably only a couple dozen countries where there is anyone that doesn't live within 100 miles of a border
twitch.tv/tehsloth
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oh my god he did that with us too
last night he couldn't figure out how to get the sound on (muted), and he teachers senior level IT courses
how the fuck did this guy get a job
ohhhhh
Making people register with a site before they buy is also dumb!
http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/
-Starts typing up Book of Mormon synopsis just in case -
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Canadian history: Witness the slow methodical march of peaceful procedural votes.
Geth has a weird tendency to pick me.
I might get one when I get engaged
STEREOTYPE INTENSIFIES
What a huge difference that patch made. It is a playable game now.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I get chat whenever I am about to go to sleep
The fucking worst are the sites that make you register just to even fucking see their items.
Fuck those sites
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Geth loves that. Or when the chat ends at 4 am and he picks someone who posted several hours previously.
Nobody spends more time thinking about women, gay men, and sex than straight white republican men.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
nsfw audio
html, css, javascript/ajax, php, and now mysql
with like a week spent on each
it does not seem particularly useful to dip a toe into each of these, it's not like I'm going to remember much other than sessions exist, or you can make a function call by pressing a button, or whatever
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monster
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Also good lord is it ugly.
*only spinach in fridge*
*reclines in deep reflection*
the CS here is like, 1 class for each thing (I was going to take it)
MIS is 2 classes in C# and 2 classes in SQL and that's it, but that makes sense for MIS since its focused more on DBA/Sys admin
I'm hungry.
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