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August 2010

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A whitish shell carved into the shape of a face, with an extremely protuberant triangular nose

Mountains and dark blue lake

Old St. Andrews Church

A pair of Tower Optical coin-operated binoculars

A photograph of a maize weevil

{*mp}}... that the Louisiana historian Garnie W. McGinty's Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880 is an enduring study of Reconstruction in McGinty's native state?

{*mp}}... that the historian Jimmy G. Shoalmire specialized in Reconstruction in Red River Parish, Louisiana, ruled from 1868 to 1876 by carpetbagger State Senator Marshall Twitchell?