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  How The Civil War Created America's Income Tax

  May 18, 2020 · 1 min read

  Fighting the Civil War cost us a fortune. We ended up going into serious debt – equal to 100% of the country’s GDP at the time. Since there were relatively few taxes back then, Abraham Lincoln imposed the…

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  Street Performer Masters The Ancient Ring Dance Art

  November 29, 2019 · 1 min read

  The Ring Dance I saw someone doing this in San Francisco a few years ago. This performer brings it to an artistic level.

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  Wonder, astonishment, and devotion

  April 28, 2023 · 1 min read

  I came across this journal entry in Diaries of Note. It was written in 1831 in Brazil by Charles Darwin. It describes a typical day in his life then, surveying the rain forest with the help of his team. I was…

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  Why Nobody Can Count English Words Accurately

  February 5, 2020 · 1 min read

  How many words are in the English language? Last week, citing the Oxford English Dictionary, I said that there are 171,476 English words in current use. But after thinking about it, that number seemed awfully…

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  Wanna Make a Ton of Money Creatively?

  March 28, 2023 · 1 min read

  If I said it once, I said it a hundred times. If you want to succeed at the highest possible level in life, you must master at least two out of three fundamental skills. You must learn to think analytically…

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