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Pls consider including 1946 Nankaidō earthquake. -- 74.13.130.52 ( talk) 05:33, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 19:57, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 06:45, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 07:21, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Please excuse me if I am posting this on the wrong talk page.
On the Main Page today, the blurb for this anniversary is
1860 – South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War.
Doesn't this imply, misleadingly, that the Confederate states seceded chiefly because they wanted to continue to allow slavery? I recall a scene in the episode of The Simpsons in which Apu becomes a U.S. citizen. In this scene, he is taking the citizenship test and he is asked what the Civil War was fought over, or something like this, and he replied that it was fought over something else (I'm not sure, but I think he said something about those states' economies) but the popular belief is that it was fought over the fate of the slaves, so that was what he was giving as his answer. --anon. 71.183.139.60 ( talk) 23:16, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 07:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 11:39, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 06:14, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 17:16, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 17:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 21:51, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 04:31, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
This is the talk page for making suggestions or discussing improvements to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 20.
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 20, 2024 |
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Pls consider including 1946 Nankaidō earthquake. -- 74.13.130.52 ( talk) 05:33, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 19:57, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 06:45, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 07:21, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Please excuse me if I am posting this on the wrong talk page.
On the Main Page today, the blurb for this anniversary is
1860 – South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War.
Doesn't this imply, misleadingly, that the Confederate states seceded chiefly because they wanted to continue to allow slavery? I recall a scene in the episode of The Simpsons in which Apu becomes a U.S. citizen. In this scene, he is taking the citizenship test and he is asked what the Civil War was fought over, or something like this, and he replied that it was fought over something else (I'm not sure, but I think he said something about those states' economies) but the popular belief is that it was fought over the fate of the slaves, so that was what he was giving as his answer. --anon. 71.183.139.60 ( talk) 23:16, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 07:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 11:39, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 06:14, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 17:16, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 17:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 21:51, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
— howcheng { chat} 04:31, 22 December 2020 (UTC)