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nadinbrzezinski

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4. My time line properly starts on January 1, 3345
Tue Apr 1, 2014, 11:33 AM
Apr 2014

Things like the development of the first space drive, I can see among the well educated elite. I mean, you do need those to get between solar systems. The ACA, not really. In fact, the only reason why one faction sort of remembers the US, the way we remember Greece, is that they consider themselves a democracy. Are they? That be up for debate. Pericles, we sort of remember, Thucydides, not so much, for example.

By the way, what is Eleanor of Aquitaine known for? Social security, the ACA, the Battle of Gettysburg... the last one will survive. We are far better at preserving military history than other types of history.

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