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Underground Railroad routes The Underground Railroad was not just taking slaves to Canada. There was a southern version too, heading down through Texas and into Mexico. Here's a good story on it. While researching U.S. Civil War history in South Texas, Roseann Bacha-Garza came across...
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In case climate change wasn't stressing the world's species enough, human politics and failure to govern is driving many of them to extinction. The story of the monarch butterfly, an iconic species in the U.S. that unfortunately also has to cross human borders, is probably...
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Do Not Be a Fool

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On May 13, 2020
The Spanish were able to conquer the Mexica (Aztecs) due to the smallpox wiping out Tenochtitlan between 1519-21. But in the writings that survived the Spanish conquest, there were guides to the emperors on how to respond during a period of sickness. It seems their...
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Mexican Forests and the State

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On January 25, 2020
Since I know there is an insatiable desire among LGM commenters to discuss Mexican forestry issues, much more so than things that are actually important such as obsessing over which similar presidency will result from various Democrats, let me build on the post the other...
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