On 11/20/2013 21:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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?
>>

Don't forget about the Mexicans in Texas and the Midwest :)