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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:00:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-04-10, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 02:16:33 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>
>> I heard a lot about Browning when I lived in Great Falls. Don't think I
>> ever there (or through there) though.
>
> It's on 2 just past East Glacier. Theoretically it should get traffic from 
> Glacier tourists who go over Logan and then back on 2 or some other 
> routing. There is a hotel and casino but not much else. 

When I went to Glacier Park I was living in Kalispell, so I don't know if we 
got as far as Browning or not. (I was about eleven or twelve, so that's a 
long time ago.)

>> I think I would have been on the French side in the war. The French
>> seemed to be able to trade with the Indians and get along with them (and
>> send missionaries). The English conquered and destroyed.
>
> In general the French preferred to make love, not war. My grandmother was 
> a Quebec convent girl (orphan) so I didn't know anything about her roots. 
> My first brush with DNA testing was out of curiosity when National 
> Geographic offered it. 0% Indian DNA. I don't know how accurate the 
> autosomal profiles are, but no French component either. 

I don't know if DNA tests mean a lot. They'll say things like 20% English, 
but the English are mongrels (like those in most countries), so what does it 
really mean? I've heard that Indians won't provide DNA information. My 
daughter took a DNA test and it showed no Indian blood. But I know my 
grandmother (on my mother's side) was either half Indian or full blooded, so 
my daughter has some Indian blood in her.

> Even in New York State when it was under Dutch control it was mostly about 
> trading instead of settling in. The Dutch and English used the Iroquois as 
> proxies in the Beaver Wars with the English picking up after the Anglo-
> Dutch wars. 

I think the Dutch were more interested in money. The colonial English always 
seemed to be interested in money AND conquest — not always in that order.

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