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Barack Obama

Major Hogwash

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13. That's interesting.

Reply to Hissyspit (Reply #9)

Mon Aug 11, 2014, 02:29 AM

Aug 2014

I had no idea of the rich history of that desk.

On a side note, I also didn't realize that tensions were so high between Great Britain and the United States back in the 1850's.
I guess they didn't want to talk about that time period in any of the history classes that I took when I was in school.

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