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Well as we know Eddy if some of history is changed, all history is changed.
So you are not happy? :frown1:
LOL! I'm fine, Eddy. Thanks for asking. I was saying that as a person of partial African descent, Lincoln's decision to free African American's from slavery to end the war quite possibly changed the course of my life. That is if I would have even been born if things had not been changed. I do not see him with rose colored glasses. Though he may not have freed African Americans with an inate sense of their equality with whites, the step to free them was life changing at the very least.
I know what you mean.... does that mean we would not have five dollar bills?
Today, a big happy 200th birthday goes out to:
Abraham Lincoln
and
Charles Darwin
February 12, 1809... they probably had no idea what was born that day!
Charles Darwin lived in my village for a number of years....the house is still there, very grand, but a crumbling wreck...it's sad to see, the National Trust (who own it) shouldn't allow this. (Incidentally the Wedgwoods and Ralph Vaughn Williams were all residents there also, so all the more reason to preserve it).
Anyways, Happy Birthday to Charles Darwin, also!
Very cool.
I've heard if you go to the Galapagos, they have a walk where you can "walk in Darwin's shoes", see what he saw, sit in his chair, and so forth. Sounds cool!
Sounds very cool, funnily enough I was only reading about the Galapagos on Auntie Beebs website yesterday...ecologists are pressing for tourism to be curbed there, to halt 'irreversible damage'...fair enough, though I'd love to see them.
Here's the link.
Yeah, I've heard a lot about that!
Apparently Ecuador, which owns the islands, sees it as potentially a Hawaii-like place that they could market for major tourism.
While I would love to go there, I am not enthused by the idea of it being "Maui South", and I do think conservation should be a major concern there.
Regardless, I still want to go. :biggrin1: