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Jeff Hoppes
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birds, British history, buzzers
Yes, from the 1569 Union of Lublin until the second partition of Poland in 1793.
July 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Every day is a good bird day.
June 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
South of Lawrence that trail rapidly trends in the direction of "you are likely to encounter a Northern Waterthrush."

(The bridge at Bryn Mawr has been a tremendous improvement for how I tend to use this system...)
June 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Sweeping years-long epic (the years are "49th Division's arctic warfare training in Iceland, 1940-1942").
June 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
That should, in general, be ok! (Full text of our practices for resolving this sort of thing can be read here: www.naqt.com/buzzword/jud...)
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December 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Thanks for letting us know, Josh- our protest committee will take a look at this case.
December 18, 2024 at 3:55 AM
The obviously superior option is right there (for certain central Pennsylvania values of "there")
June 24, 2024 at 12:57 AM
April 4, 2024 at 2:29 AM
How about "lacustrine"?
February 6, 2024 at 2:10 AM
WE WANT EIGHT AND WE WON'T WAIT (cat treats)
January 31, 2024 at 6:45 PM
The plan for the Crater had real potential, but the execution was very badly botched. (Compare, at a much larger scale, the attack on Messines Ridge in summer 1917.)
December 18, 2023 at 7:54 PM
(Seriously, I think it would fascinating to write a set of Chicago Open-difficulty lightning rounds for some low-stress summer side event.)
December 6, 2023 at 1:00 AM
Ooh, sorry, what I have written here is five instances of "ex-Confederate Northern Mockingbird"
December 6, 2023 at 12:58 AM
All these years later and I'm still a bit disappointed my high school career ended without a chance at the "State Birds" lightning round.
December 6, 2023 at 12:52 AM