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“If you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming,” I said to him lazily, “just ask for Wild Bob.”
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
Hurley Winkler
@hurleywinkler
WIP definitions:
Aganippe : In Greek legend, a fountain of Boetia at the foot of Mount Helicon, dedicated to the MUSES because it imparted poetic inspiration. Hence the Muses are sometimes called Aganippides. Also the NYMPH of this fountain.
ages: Hesiod (8th century BC): golden, silver, brazen, heroic, iron (also planets) — Shakespeare's 7 ages in A
it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Joseph Ho
@alchemists
Under Wilson, the United States intervened in Latin America more often than at any other time in our history. We landed troops in Mexico in 1914, Haiti in 1915, the Dominican Republic in 1916, Mexico again in 1916 (and nine more times before the end of Wilson’s presidency), Cuba in 1917, and Panama in 1918.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Laurie Stallman
@lstallman
In the early empire, a greedy person was commonly referred to as being “the first to take the fresh-bought pepper from the camel’s back.”37 The poet Persius wrote: The greedy merchants led by lucre, run To the parched Indies, and the rising sun; From thence hot Pepper, and rich Drugs they bear, Bart’ring for Spices, their Italian ware.
William J. Bernstein • A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Illustrated]
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