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Um. Except that entire countries collectively lose their shit when a player scores a goal. The announcer lets out a breath-defying “gooooooooooooooal,” and the entire team comes out to surround the goal-scorer, who has already celebrated his/her accomplishment as though it was the cure for cancer.
This player was so convinced of his personal greatness after scoring that he became convinced he could fly.
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Ignoring that football is not mixed gender after puberty, let’s talk history, shall we?
The Olympics:
The Olympic Games, (the leading arena for international sports competitions) have been around forever, and some of their events consist of co-ed sports. These include equestrianism, sailing, and and mixed doubles in tennis. Lisa Raymond and Mike Bryan won bronze medals for the United States.
Baseball:
I mean, after all, baseball is an “American tradition”. Did you know that Rogers Hornsby (someone who just happens to be in the Hall of Fame and reputed as one of the greatest hitters to ever play the game) played baseball for the Boston Bloomer Girls before going to the Majors; he dressed up as a woman to play ball with women. But I don’t think it was serious… they were just touring at the professional level.
Baseball could very well see female players if sexism didn’t shunt girls into softball. Robin Wallace, director of the North American Women’s Baseball League, was the first woman to play varsity baseball at her high school in Mobile, Alabama.
Seriously, this argument makes her sound like Mac from Sandlot 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or5O3rUJKjM#t=230
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Hispaniola, the large Caribbean island home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Columbus' sketch of part of the island
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2pac was still in jail at the time, not to be released until late October.
As mentioned below, Pac never actually sent the letter:
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Euthanasia was an early title for All Eyez on Me, the album 2pac would have been working on at the time.
A couplet in a Public Enemy-esque song “Letter to the President” might have been the basis for Pac’s album concept. The line appears to celebrate Pac’s initial arrival at Death Row Records, suggesting that it was written during this time.
Destination Death Row, finally found a home;
Plus all my homies wanna die, call it euthanasia.
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“Permanent Revolution”
Marxism-Leninism was an ideology of international proletarian revolution. Lenin spoke of the Bolsheviks “basing their whole tactics on the support of the world workers' revolution.” International leftists formed the Communist International, or Comintern, to unite workers globally to overthrow capital.
Stalin revised the scope in 1924, instituting the “Socialism in One Country” doctrine after communist revolutions failed to follow the Soviets' success.
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“The purple finger remains a hopeful symbol in Iraq,” read a Public Radio International headline about the elections.
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Tesla used a meme to accompany their announcement, the early “All your base are belong to us now” meme.
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