My mutuals and I would all be living in ancestral houses if America never left the Philippines 🇺🇸🇵🇭

New video! A senate speech by Henry Cabot Lodge on the retention of the Philippines from 1900! 🇺🇸🇵🇭 youtube.com/watch?v=G18KFV…

>Vietnam wanted help against the French >Burma wanted protection against the British >Several were advocating Taiwan annexation >Borneo Company just needed more support >We had the Philippines >We had a spat with Korea >Sumatra expedition America could've had an Asian empire

I am once again reminding you that your future is the Ancestral House when the Philippines becomes the 51st State.

Arthur MacArthur's house in Manila, Philippines (General Douglas MacArthur's father)

New video!! On the annexation of the Philippines by the United States!! 🇺🇸🇵🇭 youtube.com/watch?v=V779ND…

Cercle Sportif of French Saigon, 1948 🇫🇷

Italian traveller Giuseppe Acerbi describes the Finnish sauna in 1799. The text is auto translated from Finnish but I think it's readable.

“Wrecking balls could be here”

South Carolina 🇺🇸

Waking up to a nice humid breeze in the Lowcountry would fix me..

Some interiors I like lately, Oak bench and bookcase for a Victorian turret (design Max Rollitt, photos Chris Horwood)

This and a very well known source of income

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Fifty years ago, Florida was largely swamp and wilderness. Americans built it into one of the most beautiful tropical destinations in the world.

Poplar Grove Plantation, Scotts Hill, North Carolina 🇺🇸