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on Tarring and Feathering
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Image from WikipediaThere are those who identify with nooses, and personify them as the dark history of America. I’m from an ethnicity that sees tarring and feathering as the ultimate symbol of savagery in the new world. The idea [...]
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The Ides of March, part MMVIII
Okay, as I am one of the last remaining licensed Latin teachers (I really am), I therefore must explain again the concept of the Ides of March: The Roman Calendar was really technologically amazing for its time, no less so perhaps than the Aztec Calendar (I also have a Spanish Teaching license, and it is [...]
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