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Time for another great American (and world) history lesson from American Minute.
1 posted on 07/13/2020 6:51:03 PM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself,<<

Short Translation: More Range time....


2 posted on 07/13/2020 6:56:51 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: Perseverando

Bkmk


3 posted on 07/13/2020 7:02:51 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: Perseverando

He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, the sitting Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel.


Democrats have always been a**holes.


4 posted on 07/13/2020 7:11:15 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Perseverando
Han Hamilton shot first.
6 posted on 07/13/2020 7:24:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Perseverando

You may find this of interest.

From the Smithsonian Magazine, “Pistols shed light on famed duel”

http://www.aaronburrassociation.org/Smithsonian.htm


8 posted on 07/13/2020 7:29:35 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Perseverando

Maybe the single best thing we as a country could do would be to bring back political duels. In fact, make them mandatory in certain cases.

Much better than term limits.


9 posted on 07/13/2020 7:51:02 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Perseverando

Aaron Burr intentionally fired into the air.
Alexander Hamilton took deadly aim and fatally shot Alexander Hamilton.

Aaron Burr must have been a proto democrat.


11 posted on 07/13/2020 9:51:25 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Perseverando

The peanut butter commercial about this was pretty funny.


14 posted on 07/14/2020 12:14:49 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: goldbux

I stood on that small patch of ground in Weehawken, NJ a long time ago.


15 posted on 07/14/2020 2:20:59 PM PDT by goldbux (No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. -- Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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