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This is an interesting thread that's been going on over at SA for the last couple of weeks. Someone bought a diary a guy kept back in 1904, and they've been scanning and transcribing pages from it for the forums there. The forums are open at the moment, so you all should be able to read it unregistered.

forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2015715

It's kind of cool to be able to get an actual first-hand accounting of society at the time.

Oh, and it's a heavy picture thread, so people with poor connections might want to skip it. <p>

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"Never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
</p>Edited by: Idran1701 at: 8/29/06 15:54

Is GBS open to non-members past the first page?

Also, you're welcome IDRAN >:

Wow, sure this isn't faked? Seems very modern in certain attitudes. <p>

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"Moreover, when on the following night, much to his dismay, [Caesar] had a dream of raping his own mother, the soothsayers greatly encouraged him by their interpretations of it: namely, that he was destined to conquer the earth" - Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars - Julius Caesar, chapter 7</p>

Elaborate? People have been enjoying moonshine and gawking at girls forever, man.

Yeah, Gus, it's authentic. That's one of the interesting things I thought about it, how similar it is to our own life. But they ended up finding him in the 1900 and 1910 censuses. <p>

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"Never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
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They also found the outcome of baseball games he was planning to bet on.