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.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
A 1944 map of the Mississippi River vs. a current high-resolution image of the same place by ASTER, an imaging instrument on the Terra satellite
Mark Twain wrote a great piece on the Mississippi River's process of shortening itself.
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The last two sentences comprise one of my favorite Twain quotes.
The Mississippi has been all over the place, I am sure we have had a meander up here in the wilds of South Dakota....
ReplyDeleteI'm just thinking about all the muddy-boots labor that went into making the map on the left.
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