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Entries tagged as festivalsThursday, May 10. 2007Threshing Days This is a steam-powered tractor, which I photographed last August at my hometown's annual festival, Threshing Days. It is a massive thing, full of detail, noise, and action. Threshing Days (see earlier articles about it) brings people in from across the country. The town's usual population of 600 multiplies for this. The engine pictured here was being used for a threshing demonstration, which was how wheat was processed before combines were invented. A big flywheel on the engine was connected to a large belt, which powered the threshing machine. That machine separated the wheat like a modern combine does, but was supplied by farmers dumping wheat onto it. 
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Sun, 05.10.2008 20:40
There is no denying that there have been plenty of people th at have killed in the name of Christianity. That does [...]
Sun, 05.10.2008 18:34
I think the formula you wanted is git format-patch $(git rev-list HEAD | tail -1)
Sun, 05.10.2008 14:23
I know it sounds nice to you, but, Christianity means an opp ressive, theocratic, brutal, b loody regime to many of [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:47
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Sat, 04.10.2008 23:43
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Sat, 04.10.2008 23:41
Hi Cliff, I agree with you that the "they take jobs Ameri cans won't" argument doesn't m ake sense. I also agree [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 17:26
I always worry when people cla im their ethics are founded on religious tenets, since most religions have a lot of [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 08:37
"We are torturing potentially innocent people." Are you i mplying that it's allowed to t orture "guilty" people? [...]