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Panamanians and Thanksgiving

First and foremost, I’d like to wish you a happy Thanksgiving holiday if you celebrate it. For those of you with a passive knowledge of what’s being celebrated today then allow me to enlighten you with my Wikipedia-powered knowledge: Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday every November in the United States, while [...]

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300: The Battle of Thermopylae

The year was 480 BC and Greece was under the impending invasion of the unstoppable forces from Persia. After much discussion in Corinth, it was assessed that the alliance of Greek states could gather up anywhere between 7,000 to 10,000 men and they would all be under the leadership of Spartan king Leonidas I, thinking [...]

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Panamanians and November

It would seem that 103 years ago a group of socially-conscious Panamanians decided to rise up around the end of October and make November the month where most (if not all) of our most important battles for freedom took place… more than a hundred years later we, the people, enjoy these dates as excuses to [...]

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Nintendo: Back on Top

I was going to talk about some news I saw this morning before heading out to work but all of that got kicked in the crotch and is down for the count; I really hope the Bastardizer gets his hands on this stuff… via Smoth I was sent a link to 1UP.com where there was [...]

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