That’s what you get after numerous generations of spotty bottoms. 
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That’s just happened, the Brits took it down to London again.
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I love that kind of stuff.
From Mammoth Cave, in the area of the old Snowball Dining Room.
That’s “August 2, 1909.”
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“Win”? Bush and his cronies fecking stole it.
Can’t expect CNN not to be mealymouthed though I suppose.
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Very old joke:
At an Edwardian dinner party a proper and respectable lady inadvertently let loose a loud fart. To prevent her embarrassment, her gallant suitor seated on her right quickly stood up and said, “I’m terribly sorry, ladies and gentlemen. Please excuse me.”
The dinner continued, but a few minutes later the lady again broke wind. Her protector again began to rise, but the rival suitor on the lady’s left leapt to his feet. “No, no, I insist” he said. “I’ve got this one.”
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My daughter is torturing herself over some wild inconsistencies she has encountered in various accounts of her favourite period of Florentine history and just busting to get at some primary sources, even if it means learning Renaissance Italian… 
I’m sticking to math, myself. 
Although, without understanding its historical context it can be more confusing than you might expect.
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Tell me she’s an academic without telling me!
And she’s right: you have to get to the primary sources to see where other people went wrong. Learning a new language (just reading, not having to worry about pronunciation) is a small price to pay.
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She’s still in high school. 
Whether she dodges the academia bullet remains to be seen.
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If that’s how she approaches things, I regret to inform you that she has found her place in the world!
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Are you an academic? If so, she very well might go that direction… you (and she) have my sympathies!
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I occasionally mentally revisit the day I declined an invitation by a guru in my field to take a position at Wilfred Laurier University.‡
The jury is still out on that choice…
‡ a.k.a. “the high school down the street” if you’re from University of Waterloo 
but said guru describes his move from the UW to WLU as “like going from MIT to Harvard”, which apparently pleased both of the deans.
Cédric Villani likes to cite an article that puts mathematicians as among the happiest of professions. I’ll go with that, in academia or not.
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Hang on, the way the 
Rebellion of 1776 is taught here, it was all about abrogating the 1763 treaty and avoiding the winds of abolitionism in the 
empire (even if there was a dodgy incident during Treaty of Paris negotiations to let one company maintain a slave-driven sugar monopoly in the Empire by horsetrading for Quebec instead of keeping Martinique and Guadeloupe). The wasn’t keen on the fight in the first place because keeping British troops in the colonies was costing 3 times more than the tax revenues, which the colonists were determined not to pay anyhow. Ontario’s first Lieutenant Governer John Graves Simcoe even let General Washington go at the Battle of Brandywine, more or less in the name of being a good sport.
Sigh… such different stories we tell… 
Edit: and yes, we in 
also could do a h*ll of a lot better when it comes to teaching the First Nations side of our history.
Edit Edit: To be clear, I’m out to contrast the stories told within the empire, also thoroughly ridden with dubious perspectives and glaring omissions. Those of us not fast asleep in high school history in Ontario were at least told some sanitized version of the 1763 treaty line story, not least because First Nations support played large role in our winning the War of 1812. I was a little surprised that the angle seems to get so little play in the .
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