CA gal living life in UT. I write, travel, & make awesome smoked habanero salsa. Goes great with tequila. Ok, so do most things. Except ice cream; thatโs icky.
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Who says we're not? RT @UberFacts Left-handedness is also known as "sinistrality" because left-handed people were once thought to be demons.
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On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.
The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.
Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.
He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.
He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.
A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.
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I would have loved her to come to my Scottish Country Dance performances, go to a Kirkin of the Tartan with me, helped cook at a Burns Dinner. I may have never known her, but I think a part of her is always with me, especially when I dance a strathspey, or listen to the pipes.
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This is amazing!! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
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The Tartan Army are a credit to Scotland. Here they are in full voice singing โLoch Lomondโ in Boston Stadium last night for the World Cup match between Scotland and Haiti. Absolutely glorious.
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It's getting close to peak firefly season here. The fields and pastures look like they're full of rising embers. The video doesnโt capture the full magic of the moment.
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โLoch Lomondโ in Foxborough. Quite a sight. #WorldCup
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Iโve never had this much fun in Boston, the Tartan Army is incredible. Ready for another amazing day. No Scotland No PARTY! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
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#SaveStargate tweetstorm today!
Jun 13
๐จ Get ready for Wave 2 of the LIVE TWEETSTORM on June 13th! ๐
Join the worldwide mobilization and let's make some noise. We need everyone!
๐ Paris : 23h00 ๐ New York : 5:00 PM EDT ๐ Los Angeles : 2:00 PM PDT
#SaveStargate
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Find you someone who loves you as much as JD loves trying to find justifications to be weak on the global stage
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So I told my surviving baby bird, his name is now 'Dumb Ass'. He got out of his box in the outdoor enclosure and I couldn't find him. I had no idea how he could have gotten out. He hadn't, he'd somehow gotten between the liners we'd put in ๐ฃ Scared the crap out of me.
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This brought a smile ๐ธ
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Orange cat interrupts "Romeo and Juliet" theatre performance..๐๐๐บ๐
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