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Yay, girls! Glad to see feminism is alive and, well…
From Harper’s Weekly Review: In Shetland, for the first time, girls led the Up Helly Aa fire festival, in which participants don Viking dress and lob torches at longships, and women in Japan took part in a naked festival for … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged Harper's, Shetland, Up Helly Aa fire festival, Viking longships
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Speaking of ancient times…
…which we were doing with news about Ur and urban sprawl (did the word “urban” come from “Ur”?)*, another Harper’s Finding presents this: Mummified mice discovered atop desolate, high-altitude Andean volcanoes were found to have traveled there on their own, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged Andes, Harper's Findings, Inca, Incan child sacrifice, mummified mice, OED, urban, urbanus
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The criteria Florida used in banning books
I’ve been curious about this ever since I ran my eyes quickly down the over 600 names of books banned in Florida. How did these highly literate guys choose what not to allow Floridians to read? By the way, all … Continue reading
Posted in "Woke" Chronicles, Culture, Fascism, Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged Armageddon, Bruce Friedman, Donald Trump, Florida banned books, Harper's, John Milton, Lord of the Rings, No Left Turn In Education, Palestine, Paradise Lost, pentagrams
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