16 juni 1829 was the birthday of a great American, the Indian resistance leader Geronimo.
Read : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo.
Was Geronimo a mass murderer ? No more or no less than his opponents ... But history is always written by the victors.
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but I'd like to know him better still
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Pablo Carpintero
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- your devoted servant, is a happily retired economist, and way too old to mend his ways. Pablo knows that many economists have the perfidious tendency to turn into professional idiots. That's why his rule of life is to be as contrarian as possible, and then some ...
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A guy I have known for almost 70 years
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1 comment:
I just wonder how they can be so sure about the date of his birth. To the best of my knowledge the Indians didn't keep any records.
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