Thought I'd share a couple fun stories about computer literacy re: the poll. The book DID deal at length with Burr's allegedly overly romantic relationship with his acknowledged daughter, Theodosia, oddly named after her mother. The book did not, as I recall, mention the African-American ancestry of Burr's unacknowledged daughter, which is nicely and pretty convincingly chronicled here. If you have a competitor please post it here. This is the best top to any book I have ever read. Reputedly she is the richest woman in New York City, having begun her days humbly but no doubt cheerfully in a brothel in Providence, Rhode Island. Aaron Burr is the widow of wine merchant Steven Jumel. A court presided over by chief justice John Marshall found Colonel Burr innocent of treason but guilty of a misdemeanor in proposing an invasion of Spanish territory in order to make himself emperor of Mexico. Three years after this lamentable affair colonel Burr was arrested by orders of president Thomas Jefferson and charged with treason for having wanted to break up the United States. In 1804 Colonel Burr, then vice president of the United States, shot and killed General Alexander Hamilton in a duel. This was the Colonel's second marriage a half century ago he married Theodosia Prevost. In attendance were Madame Jumel's niece (some say daughter) and her husband, Nelson Chase, a lawyer from Mr. "Shortly before midnight, July 1, 1833, Colonel Aaron Burr, aged 77, married Eliza Jumel, born 58 years ago (but more likely 67, but remember she is prone to litigation!) The ceremony took place at Madame Jumel's mansion on the Washington Heights and was performed by Dr. Regarding "Burr," it is a great, great historical novel.
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I disclosed my contempt for the silliness of the middle name "Otto," which I recently discovered belongs to a man I admire, but in that tweet I did not explain the full context, which is my middle name of "Norman," which has always been a secret shame of mine, a shame that is now diminished by the knowledge of an Otto. Peter shooting then-NRA chief Wayne LaPierre in the crotch.These observations are about recent tweets of mine. Weingarten made headlines in 2013 when he penned a poem imagining St. "Apologies.(Also, yes, curries are spice blends, not spices.)" "I should have named a single Indian dish, not the whole cuisine, & I do see how that broad-brush was insulting," he added.
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"From start to finish plus the illo, the column was about what a whining infantile ignorant d-head I am," tweeted Weingarten. I take nothing back," he tweeted.īut by Monday evening he apologized for what he said about Indian food. Food was beautifully prepared yet still swimming with the herbs & spices I most despise. "Took a lot of blowback for my dislike of Indian food in today's column so tonight I went to Rasika, DC's best Indian restaurant. Weingarten was defiant against the criticism in a tweet Sunday. ".seems to me once you go to Everything Those Bazillions of Brown People Eat Is Beneath Human Consumption it takes it into a categorically different place and suddenly it's just not fun any more," responded actor Vince Gatton. It is racist," read a tweet from filmmaker Arlen Parsa. "What is it with white guys with elite media jobs thinking everyone wants to read their dumb, very poorly informed rants about how much they dislike all Indian food? It is not cute.
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