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jep
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response 28 of 89:
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Jun 23 02:40 UTC 1993 |
View hidden response.
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vidar
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response 29 of 89:
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Jan 2 00:55 UTC 1994 |
Very Interesting.
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spartan
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response 30 of 89:
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Aug 2 22:44 UTC 1994 |
Sorry to change the subject, but has anyone recently seen "Forrest Gump"? If
so, how do you all feel about the way it portrayed the events he fairly
accurate, or did Robert Zemeckis really screw up? Just curious." ."
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tnt
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response 31 of 89:
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Aug 3 05:47 UTC 1994 |
Accurate in terms of what, the book?
There are apparently ( idon't know for sure, as I'm not into dumb
but 'cute' storylines like FG) a lot of differences between the book & the mov
movie -- even his IQ! In the book it is 70, & the movie it is apparently 75.
This is per a brief piece in last week's USN&WR.
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spartan
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response 32 of 89:
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Aug 3 19:49 UTC 1994 |
Well, actually I meant in terms of historical accuracy, not in relation to the
book. You know, like the Vietnam sequence, for example.
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rcurl
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response 33 of 89:
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Aug 4 05:59 UTC 1994 |
Well, Forrest *wasn't* present for all those newscast sequences of
former presidents.....(just in case anyone was fooled?).
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spartan
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response 34 of 89:
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Aug 6 05:29 UTC 1994 |
OK, forget I asked. No one one seems to have understood what I meant.
Frankly, I don't think I know what I was really getting at, either.
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rcurl
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response 35 of 89:
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Aug 6 05:40 UTC 1994 |
That probably explains it.
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tnt
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response 36 of 89:
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Aug 10 08:20 UTC 1994 |
Explains what?
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carson
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response 37 of 89:
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Aug 10 08:30 UTC 1994 |
(I think I know what spartan was trying to get at! I do! I do!)
(I think he was asking if the events that were depicted in Forrest Gump
could have played out the way the movie suggests!)
(beam)
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aruba
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response 38 of 89:
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Aug 10 14:15 UTC 1994 |
I think I saw on TV the other day that Nixon was out of the country
on the night of the Watergate break-in, whereas in the movie he wasn't.
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spartan
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response 39 of 89:
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Aug 12 16:20 UTC 1994 |
Yeah, I think carson's got it.
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debra
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response 40 of 89:
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Sep 26 13:16 UTC 1994 |
hello everyone out there in cyberspace. i've been out of school for some time
now, and doing the mothering thing but my political science/history background
keeps my mind busy. It was worth however many thousands of bucks it cost me.
I've been doing some thinking about imperialism lately. Have you ever read the
original Babar The Elephant King books? (as a mom I am now looking for
relevance in children's literature). Notice how Babar, a perfectly normal
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rcurl
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response 41 of 89:
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Sep 26 13:28 UTC 1994 |
I hope you're OK now. Yes, I've read the Babar books, also because of
having children. So, what's with imperialism, in Babar-land?
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debra
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response 42 of 89:
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Sep 26 14:19 UTC 1994 |
o.k., I'm o.k. now...I'm new at this, so thank for your patience.
anyway, Babar dresses and acts like a human (Westerner) so the
other elephants crown him king. Then he goes on to build
"Celesteville"--with little bungalows in little straight rows
(ala the Europeans in their colonies in Africa, India, etc.)
So was Laurent de Brunhoff pro or anti imperialist? These are
things I think about while nursing my baby, making lasagne, etc.
Good stuff, this history, any thoughts from any of you out there?
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rcurl
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response 43 of 89:
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Sep 26 14:37 UTC 1994 |
I didn't read any cynicism or sarcasm into the stories, so I'd have
to take the stories at face value, but not necessarily "imperialism".
Why can't Babar just learn other ways, and implement them? No one
was forcing him to (as I recall). [By the way, have you sorted out
how to respond to a "talk" when you're in the middle of something?]
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lsee
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response 44 of 89:
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Feb 9 04:47 UTC 1995 |
I would like to discuss Civil War history? Is there anyone else?
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mwarner
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response 45 of 89:
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Feb 9 05:00 UTC 1995 |
You should enter an item. The last book about the civil war I read was
called "Lincoln at Gettysburg", a detailed description of the cultural
and personal foundations of the Gettysburg address.
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carson
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response 46 of 89:
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Feb 9 08:09 UTC 1995 |
The Civil War fascinated me in grade school. I'm not nearly as up on it
right now, but I wouldn't mind trying.
oh, lsee, if you don't mind my asking: why are you so eager to
discuss the Civil War, of all things?
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lsee
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response 47 of 89:
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Feb 10 05:06 UTC 1995 |
Carson and Mike-I am a Civil WAr reenactor and am interested in seing if there
are others out there who do this thing. Have some esp. experience i n the
field.. (literally). Interested in continuing--Civil War history--all
fields--let's give it a go.
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remmers
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response 48 of 89:
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Feb 10 11:03 UTC 1995 |
The way to give it a go is to enter an item about it. Type "enter" at
the Ok prompt.
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lsee
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response 49 of 89:
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Feb 11 04:33 UTC 1995 |
will do--thanks
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groble
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response 50 of 89:
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Mar 24 06:41 UTC 1995 |
re:Babar musing: Edward Said would *love* your observation. John M
MacKenzie would love it more. What's the publication date on those books?
It could tell you a lot about it. The author may or may not have been
pro- or anti-imperialist, but imperialism still shapes the views that
emerge in a book, even a children's book (MacKenzie would posit:
*especially* in a children's book!)
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volt
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response 51 of 89:
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Apr 17 03:52 UTC 1995 |
I sugest for anyone interested in the imperial roman empire the book
"The First Man In Rome" it is a master piece of literature.
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rcurl
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response 52 of 89:
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Apr 17 06:07 UTC 1995 |
I would add a recommendation of Gibbons' _Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire_, even if from an earlier scholarship.
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