Douglas was extremely close with his mother and often considered a "mama's boy." Until around age 8, she dressed him in skirts and kept his hair long and in curls.[10]
At his desk, he would wear a Japanese ceremonial kimono, cool himself with an oriental fan, and
Whenever I read, "unedited pictures of a UAP from my Samsung phone," I can't help but think of everyone's, "Unedited pictures of the moon on my Samsung phone."
reading a book about daily life in 1800s now and probably the most viscerally alien part of it, relative to current fabric of life, is how much more everyone worked. people would work sunup to sundown, 6 days a week, to barely make enough wage to buy food for themselves
it's weird that at a given age, 45 say, someone can't just write down the compressed/compiled topline notes on everything they've learned about life, and then just hand that to someone at 20, saving them 25 years of lessons. why that doesn't work is a somewhat instructive Q
this reminds me of a question, why did peasants grow lettuce/cucumbers/other 0 calorie vegetables in gardens when they were often pushed to the bare minimum calories needed to survive? or they basically didn't
smoke cigarettes in a jeweled cigarette holder.
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By 1930, MacArthur was 50 and still the youngest and one of the best known of the U.S. Army's major generals. ... While in Washington, he would ride home each day to have lunch with his mother.
