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Angie uses the power of mental thinking to make it dynamic.

2009 was a miserable year for me: I worked too much and paid very little attention to anything else. As a result, I enter 2010 out of shape and lethargic. Enter Spicy Split Pea Soup! Delicious, nutritious, and with a little kick to boot. Ha ha.
Spicy Split Pea Soup
Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil
2 onions, chopped
5 cups [...]

Also in 1971, the Attica Prison action seeking improved prisoner treatment took place. 31 prisoners and 9 guards were killed when the action was eventually ended by the National Guard, prison guards, and local police.

Get this: Swiss women got the right to vote in freaking 1971! Dude.

I got the idea to idea to “create a visual anthology” of the year I was born — 1971 — from this item on kottke.
First up, the publication of The Pentagon Papers.

I was bummed when Christopher Eccleston left the new Dr. Who a few years back, to the point that I basically abandoned my active viewership of the show. However, I recently reset my DVR to record them and fell in love all over again after hearing these few, simple lines: