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All Christian comfort is denied, Dog Days! The great bulk of 19th-century Arkansans had to be stoic since they could not afford to spend two months in the Adirondacks each summer. This was especially true of women. Wives cooked meals on open fireplaces, or after about 1890, on wood-burning cast iron stoves. Both women and men often worked long hours in the cotton or corn fields. Life was most uncomfortable for enslaved men and women, who often labored under both a hot sun and an armed overseer....

All Christian comfort is denied, Dog Days! The great bulk of 19th-century Arkansans had to be stoic since they could not afford to spend two months in the Adirondacks each summer. This was especially true of women. Wives cooked meals on open fireplaces, or after about 1890, on wood-burning cast iron stoves. Both women and men often worked long hours in the cotton or corn fields. Life was most uncomfortable for enslaved men and women who often labored under both a hot sun and an armed overseer. ...

Stupidest: Trump Mocked for Bashing Oscars as Less Elegant Name than Academy Awards On 4/27/21 at 3:07 PM EDT Former President Donald Trump faced online backlash on Monday after he criticized the 2021 Oscars for being "so politically correct and boring." In a statement, Trump condemned the Oscars for promoting the Democratic Party and having a "far less important and elegant name" than the Academy Awards. "What used to be called The Academy Awards, and now is called the Oscars—a far less impo...

February is Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves themselves fought for freedom that was only at best was in the promissory note of the Emancipation Proclamation. Those men, and women in the case of Harriett Tubman and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for freedom for African Americans and all others who benefited from what they fought for: women, Native Americans, Mexican America...