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    October 14, 2015 9:00 a.m.

    “The facts are that I wrote Haiti’s constitution, myself, and if I do say it, I think it’s a pretty…

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    The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1964, ensuring that the right of citizens of the…

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    October 7, 2015 4:30 p.m.

    Depiction of Sumerian beer drinkers, 2600BCE, using stalks to drink from large, communal containers. Image Available At: http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2012/cdlj2012_002_fig/figure1.jpg An early…

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    In 1933, Albert Einstein petitioned Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to allow “forty professors and doctors from Germany” to immigrate…

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  1. So these Sumerian beer drinkers were getting whammed at about the same time the Young Earth Creationists think the world was being made? That must have been some hangover

  2. I assume the Sumerian beer was not ice pilsner.

  3. Africans, even on Mt Ararat, predisposed to beer summits

  4. Party like its 1999, B.C.E. that is…

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