Tragicomic.
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In 1280 England is ruled by Edward I, and the country is fuller of people than it has ever been. Land is scarce, holdings are small, and most villagers are villeins — unfree tenants who hold a few strips of land from a lord in exchange for rent, fees, and hard labor...
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Sharon Christa McAuliffe was a 37‑year‑old social studies teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire, chosen from more than 11,000 applicants in July 1985 to be NASA’s first “Teacher in Space.” She was married to attorney Steven McAuliffe and had two children, Scott, 9, and Caroline, 6. After four months of training at Johnson Space Center, she was assigned as a payload specialist on STS‑51‑L, Space Shuttle Challenger. The flight had already slipped five times. On the night of January 27, 1986, a record cold front pushed into central Florida, dropping temperatures at Launch Complex 39B to the mid‑20s and hanging icicles from the launch tower...
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In the autumn of 1803 the 36-gun American frigate Philadelphia chased a corsair too close to shore, struck an uncharted reef off Tripoli, and was captured with her whole crew — 307 men, including Captain William Bainbridge — dragged into the Bashaw’s dungeons. The captured frigate, refloated and moored under the guns of the castle, was now the most powerful warship in Barbary hands. Commodore Edward Preble decided she had to be destroyed. He gave the job to 25-year-old Lieutenant Stephen Decatur Jr., who volunteered, and to a small captured Tripolitan ketch renamed Intrepid with seventy-odd volunteers...
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In the spring of 1758, the French and Indian War set the American frontier on fire. Britain and France fought for control of the Ohio Country, and both sides armed Native nations to raid enemy settlements. Along Marsh Creek in the Pennsylvania backcountry, Scots-Irish immigrant Thomas Jemison farmed with his wife and children. Our subject is their daughter Mary Jemison, fifteen, born on the ship that carried her family from Ireland. She was fair-haired, hardworking, and had never known anything but the farm...
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Earlier today the great Jeff Childers summarized shocking new Covid origin revelations that were dislodged from the Blob’s body cavities by Sen. Rand Paul.
At my orders, summer intern Biff Spackle transformed the entire sordid tale into a short comic book. Not only is it fun to read… it could also help DSA/Communists, Islamists, Illegal Aliens and other Democrats to grok the implications!
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