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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
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Anyone watching "Prohibition?"
Ive got the DVR set and I watched the first episode last nite. Typical Ken Burns, which is to say, extremely well researched, scads of really great photos and it fleshes out the history that we learned in school.
For example, Carrie Nation, I always knew her as an "historical figure", now I understand better why and how she became so famous.
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10-04-2011, 10:20 AM
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pretty interesting how he deals with the larger implications
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10-04-2011, 11:05 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fulshear, Texanistan
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The American History curriculum of every high school in the country should mandate every student watch "The Civil War" series Burns did.
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10-04-2011, 11:24 AM
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Saw it sunday night on PBS. Very good show. Interesting to learn about that part of our history.
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10-04-2011, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: I'm out there.
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Today's "war on drugs" is an obvious parallel.
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits... Fanatics will never learn that. It is the prohibition of a thing that makes it precious." -Mark Twain
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