Dr Wingnut

Day: February 27, 2008

  • Democracy

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    We mustn’t ever lose our courage to speak up.  To keep track.  To keep score.  Pay attention.  It’s work to be in a democracy.  It’s restful to be in a dictatorship; you click your heels and obey, but in the democracy you have to earn it and keep it fresh.Marcia Hunt, actress speaking to Bob…

  • Are you smarter than an eighth grader?

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    Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?  Well, check this out.  Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society…