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Never mind, I get the terrible map.

For anyone interested, the book "Guns of August" is a fairly short well written history of the early part of WW I.  I've read quite a bit about the war and it's more interesting in some ways than I would have guessed beforehand.

I do need to learn more. Just looking at maps from the time is really interesting to me. Doesn't look much like today's map, or even one from 1946.

My first day at UNC we took some pretty extensive tests.  When I got out, I was exhausted and walked up into town to get a beverage.  I was 20.  I did not realize laws varied state by state.  I walked into a bar, clearly a bar, and ordered a G&T and the guy looked at me like I was crazy and said "We don't serve liquor."  They did have beer.

Coming from Athens, where bars were "bars", this was a bit of a shock.  And one could only buy liquor from an ABC (state) store or in some private club.  I later discovered that downtown Chapel Hill had only three "bars" worth naming, which also was a shock to me.

SYDNEY (AP) — A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.

The 40-year-old was stopped in the knifing attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, when a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

“They just said run, run, run — someone’s been stabbed,” one witness told ABC TV in Australia. ”(The attacker) was walking really calmly like he was having an ice cream in a park. And then he went up the escalators ... and probably within about a minute we heard three gunshots.”

it's not just an issue in the US of A