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87 - Media Gets Lula's Win Wrong & The Problem With NGOs w/ Brian Mier, Ben Fong, & Melissa Naschek

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The History of Barbed Wire in Texas

The first iterations of barbed wire were extremely cruel. The barbs are really long. They were extremely painful to walk into as a person, but also extremely dangerous for cattle. It was one of those inventions that fundamentally shaped the West. There's a great history of barbedwire both in the American West but also its usage later in World War II and concentration camps called the devil's wire or the devil's rope.

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