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11-27-2016, 11:39 AM
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They have had some great authors most Americans never will read. Like you know I read Marcel Proust a couple of years ago and Stendahl's The Red and The Black. I have been picking up Emile Zola novels but just have not gotten around to reading them yet.
There is one Zola novel called Germinal about a mining strike by French laborers that some say is one of the greatest novels ever. The author describes the horrific conditions in the mines where the horses they use are sometimes born underground and are blind because they never see the sun their whole lives.
I got to read that soon.
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Reminds me of the "Lost Sea" in Sweetwater, TN. Big lake in a cave, very cool glass-bottom boat tours (no affiliation). I would highly recommend.
Anywho, they stocked it with rainbows. They go blind and lose their stripes, but survive just fine on the food pellets they feed them.
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11-27-2016, 12:53 PM
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Reminds me of the "Lost Sea" in Sweetwater, TN. Big lake in a cave, very cool glass-bottom boat tours (no affiliation). I would highly recommend.
Anywho, they stocked it with rainbows. They go blind and lose their stripes, but survive just fine on the food pellets they feed them.
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Interesting that Tennessee contains both the Creation Museum and living proof of evolution within its borders.
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11-27-2016, 02:07 PM
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Interesting that Tennessee contains both the Creation Museum and living proof of evolution within its borders.
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The Creation Museum (and Ark) is in Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati. It would be a fun place to go with a horrific buzz on just for laughs, but tickets are expensive ($30 for one, $60 for both).
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11-27-2016, 02:13 PM
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The Creation Museum (and Ark) is in Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati. It would be a fun place to go with a horrific buzz on just for laughs, but tickets are expensive ($30 for one, $60 for both).
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Tennessee, Kentucky, it's all the same thing. The Scopes Monkey Trial was in Tennessee.
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11-30-2016, 10:29 AM
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France is an immense important part of the American history.
I love our neighbours, I am glad that our "Erzfeinde" are now our friends. The country is beautiful, the culture of France is overwhelming, most of the French I met in the last three or four decades have been so nice to me.
I will never understand the contemporary aversion of Americans to France.
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11-30-2016, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by HarmanKardon
France is an immense important part of the American history.
I love our neighbours, I am glad that our "Erzfeinde" are now our friends. The country is beautiful, the culture of France is overwhelming, most of the French I met in the last three or four decades have been so nice to me.
I will never understand the contemporary aversion of Americans to France.
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I too love France, from the food to the wine to the sights to the skiing. Every time I go to Europe, I make it a point to spend a couple days on the Route des Vin in Alsace - French quality food served in German-style portions.
I think many Americans dislike the French because they're just like us - nationalistic and convinced that they are the centers of western culture (if not the universe). I believe that most Americans who express such antipathy toward the French have never set foot in France.
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