King Pine

We return you now to the Summer of Sweetness… …which was in the year 1496. Christopher Columbus, returning from his second voyage to the West, had brought back some unique items including parrots, tomatoes, tobacco, pumpkins, and a strange plant with a spiky top that looked like a crown. When…
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The Patriot

This is the story of an American Patriot. He was from New Haven, CT, and his father died when he was very young; as a result, he could not afford to attend Yale with his cohorts. This left him with a sense of insecurity that he overcame by sailing on…
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Gracias Vecinos

Now is a particularly good time to celebrate Mexican-American relations. Let’s go back to the spring of 1862, when the United States of America was getting its butt kicked by the Confederate States of America, and it looked like either England or France would enter the war on behalf of…
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