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Gus Frederick is a native Oregonian. He is by training a multimedia artist. Through his self-publishing organization "Liberal University Press," he continues to create visual books featuring different aspects of Oregon history.
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Yesterday I posted this one to Facebook and they took it down with a posted virtual "hand slap!" Said it "Violates Community Standards..." :-)
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press.liberaluniversity.org/dotm00.php
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"Arbitration in a Strike" by Homer Davenport, 1899. From Davenport's second collection titled "The Dollar or the Man? The Question of To-Day" 1900. I sent you a copy of my annotate edition. Did you ever receive it?
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"Y-2-K? B-F-D!!"
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Trump's personal brand of "LAWFARE..."
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More examples of MAGA "Lawfare..."
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Guess who won that honor in 1938?
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A "Retrofitted" meme from Alex:
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"Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from a 1935 novel...
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"Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from 1935:
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FWIW, "Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from 1935...
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Oregon cartoonist Homer Davenport (1867-1912) did this great cartoon in 1897 that pretty much explains the concept from the Guilded Age: The Dingley Tariff Act of 1897, introduced by U.S. Representative Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine, (shown here as a shopkeeper raising the prices of his goods).
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Universal Mental Liberty:
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Tolkien did say that there are "Fell Beasts" loose in the world...
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Apparently, that is not true. They didn't step over his body, as they were already in the meeting, and cancelled it upon hearing of the shooting...
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History through cartoons: From Homer Davenport's second book "The Dollar or the Man? The Question of Today," first published in 1900. This piece is titled "Arbitration in a Strike." press.liberaluniversity.org/dotm00.php
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Yup...
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Looks like Gustave Dore's work...
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During WWII they use to say: "When GERMANY gets HUNGARY, it fries TURKEY in GREECE."