Castro's school years also gave him insight into the revolutionary potential of basketball.

Is there any lesson to be learned from this? The Whig Party started collapsing as soon as Taylor was elected, so I guess if you NEED to micro-target your political ads to win, you will be done in by the contradictions of your coalition.

Pamphleteers and newspapers could tailor specific messages to voters in different states. In a brazen example, Truman Smith printed contradictory pamphlets for Whig candidate Zachary Taylor in 1848, claiming that Taylor supported the Wilmot Proviso in the north and opposed it in the south!

This reminds me of the second party system in American politics between 1824 and 1860. Here, presidential elections were not disrupted by new technology, but by the growing electorate, which was previously restricted to the ultra-wealthy and state legislators. Voters were informed by local sources.

Trump’s largest donor was Andrew Mellon’s grandson! www.firstpost.com/world/united...

Someone took the story quite seriously and wrote a letter to the editor imploring that he stop drinking milk the next day.

The universal Victoria experience. Then you walk away, or you stick around and invest countless hours into trial and error tests and educating yourself on actual 19th century politics.

Hockey! It happens in almost every game.

There was a solid century of American history where an economic downturn in your area meant that your bank would go under and you would lose all the money in your savings account. And somehow we carried on.

Only 1/10 the volume of Mukaab. We need to think bigger.