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Ethel Tulloch Banks: union leader and healer
Ethel Tulloch Banks believed in miracles. For years she fought for miraculous changes at her workplace — and may have lived one herself. Tulloch was a clerk at the San ...
Let’s Invade Mexico! Outbreaks of Filibuster Fever: The Flamingo Filibuster
“The appetite grows with eating.” Many in the late 19th Century applied the French proverb to an insatiable urge to filibuster: to conquer foreign territories with private armies. If appetite ...
Let’s Invade Mexico! Outbreaks of Filibuster Fever
In the last half of the 19th Century, aliens eagerly crossed the U.S./Mexico border — into Mexico. Burning with what historian William B. Scroggs calls “filibuster fever,” they felt entitled ...
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