Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Townsends"
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Just Rachelblog, way back my high school history teacher repeated the same thing.
Turns out utter rubbish. Most still had somewhat long hair or short hair under their wigs... some styled their actual hair in the manner of a wig like Jefferson or Washington. B. Franklin and son never cut their hair, and would wear wigs, particularly when they were in London. Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, and prior Newton etc. all had hair, many wore it long until the French Revolution which put long hair out of fashion, smacked at the idiocy that is nobility and royalty, so they took to shorter hair styles, then later, about 1830's big beards all shapes and sizes of beards and mustaches. Lice was always a big deal and problem. Wasn't until the 1940's Pyrethrin, a 1300's compound of Pyrethrum powder, that lice became an easily defeated parasite.
Wigs just as normal hair allowed lice to lay eggs, and cause irritation. And lice doesn't just infect the head, but all over. Wigs literally were taken to a hair stylist for cleaning and decorating, part of the work consisted of delousing with Pyrethrum powder and plucking the egg nits off.
So no. Not sure how that rumor started, but it's garbage. And when you think about it, it's very childish... seriously, suddenly the early 1800's and mid 1800's lice isn't a problem no more? So lets go all out with big bush beards? And wigs some how prevented lice infection, despite the fact lice don't need head hair, but any hair (body lice). And that most people wearing wigs kept their hair.... they didn't shave it off... that was more custom of officers in the military.
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This type of poverty existed in the US up to the 1930's. My grandma showed us her "cabin" she was in during her early childhood in Inkom Idaho. Essentially was the the shack you explained only that it had and still had a caste iron stove. Was dirt floor, with part of an over hang built over the small stream, I suppose for easy access water.
Widespread poverty continued but started to decline dramatically after late 1930's and didn't become the small amount it is today in the US until the early 1960's.
Above the shack was my great grandparents "modern home", the current owners let us come and tour it. Actual running water, electricity, and connected to the local sewer system; my grandma recalled that my grandpa called it his mansion. Was a typical modern house built in the late 1930's early 1940's with lots of new additions, a basement, more rooms then originally built, etc. They were able to build the modern home thanks to the work programs during FDR's admin, my great grandpa got a good paying job at the cement factory that was built and still remains in operation today.
Prior to that great grandpa worked both various jobs from farm hand, to shop clerk.
A week after visiting the shack, it was destroyed by a freak very small tornado... Inkom is in a mountain valley, and the house and shack in then also in a deep ravine, tornadoes are not typical of Idaho at all... not even in plains/plateaus.
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I don't think they will... they already did this in Italy, Germany, Russia.... there are some former Soviet states no independent nations that are extremely batshit. But western Europe doesn't follow the method of our innate governmental oligarchy Roman Mafioso style government. Not country actually does. They all use a parliamentary proportional system to eliminate gerrymandering so they don't end up an oligarchy-republic which is as bad as a monarchy or dictatorship. US isn't historically a leader, but a follower. We only helped in WWI and WWII by giving lots of stuff help ensure victory in the war.
That's it. US actually follows: We were among the last to prohibit child labor, among the last to initiate compulsory education to children up to age 16, the last to prohibit slavery, among the last nation to allow women to vote 1920, and universal voting 1965, Union rights not until 1935 after several labor vs hired men wars from the late 1800's until 1935, last to institute an national pension system for the elderly, and still the last developed nation to provide universal healthcare, etc.
If it wasn't for the fact police, guard, and fire services were being developed in the 18th century, we probably wouldn't have fire departments.
We're a follower nation.
We only pretend we're magical. As most nations do the same.
But objectively, we're a pathetic nation for being the richest super power the most bloasted oligarch and toady rich, but having about 60% of the working population making $30K or less in developed nation criteria poverty levels.
And we lock more people up in prisons nation wide and state wide than any other country on earth.
We're a joke.
Other nations really don't follow us.
We follow other nations.
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