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And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World's Second-Highest Mountain


No Way Down: Life and Death on K2




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