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Old 07-11-15, 10:21 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Stealhead View Post
Just the other day at a family gathering a cousins stepson who is in AP history thought that Christopher Columbus was from Columbia. He had no idea why WWII or WWI was fought or why we celebrate the 4th of July nor who King George was.

I think a blood vessel in my brain exploded but that might have been because while this conversation was held I firmly gripped my fork and it made my hand go numb. I might need a CT scan. But I did manage to give a brief history of the world from Renaissance to modern times.


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