Sublime

In his second career, he had inarguably left behind his status as an accumulator to become a builder, certainly the most prominent developer in the Florida frontier, and, according to some, the man who singlehandedly created it as a modern state.

But the journals and the collections were only part of what had been accomplished, only a beginning. Humboldt would spend the next thirty-odd years and virtually all his personal fortune publishing thirty monumental volumes under the general title Voyages aux Régions Equinoctiales du Nouveau Continent,

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In the end, McCain and Palin weren’t much impeded by their colonial entanglements. They were white, and they projected an image of being “American”—McCain a war hero from a military family, Palin a fierce defender of what she called “the real America.” The same immunity was not enjoyed by their opponent in the 2008 election, Barack Obama. On paper,

It could happen here. Americans who give Argentina's story fair consideration and conclude otherwise are deluding themselves. The risks are much lower for the United States than they were for Argentina, but they are unacceptably high.