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On Nov 20 07:53, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 11/20/2013 5:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 19 16:08, Warren Young wrote: > >>On 11/19/2013 10:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>How dense is that? > >> > >>Manifest Density. > >> > >>(American joke.) > > > >...which I don't get. Care to explain on cygwin-talk? > > Manifest Destiny was a philosophy prevalent in the 1800's in > America, that it was fore-ordained by God that the United States was > destined to eventually settle and incorporate territory from the > Atlantic to the Pacific. It was going to happen, it was right and > just that it happen, and all it would take was time and a little > American perseverance. > > Never mind those pesky Plains Indians^WNative Americans. How > important, really, are the ancestral homelands and beliefs of a > bunch of "savages" when compared to God's Plan for America? > > So it's a play on words: Manifest Density vs. Manifest Destiny. Got it. Thanks! Corinna
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