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Thread of American war horses
First is Blueskin, one of George Washington's two favorite steeds during the Revolutionary War.
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St. Brendan's Islander
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History, ecology, poetry.
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There are even non-white Scotch-Irish
Ryan 🏕@anotherryan00
The term "WASP" always confused me. Does that imply that there are non-white Anglo-Saxons?
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“Slaveholders,” please. “Enslavers” is dehumanizing.
@ijbailey@ijbailey
If you ever wondered why a huge chunk of white Christians have sided with enslavers, helped found the KKK, went on a century-long lynching spree, supported Jim Crow, and worship Trump, wonder no more. Erick accidentally explains it for you, why their faith is often contingent.
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Every county in the South needs to pass these laws and keep housing developments from destroying our streams, ponds, and wetlands.
ABC News 4@ABCNews4
Georgetown County is one vote away from becoming the first in our area to enact standalone protections for local streams and wetlands not protected under state and federal law. Read more: bit.ly/4aaolgk
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My submissions to Crayola:
Manchurian, Khoikhoi, Tamil
Saami, Aymara, Mbuti
Frisian, Amazigh, Korean
Hazara, Hmong, Circassian
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Some other renderings of Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides
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Moran, Fingal's Cave (detail)
Alexander's Cartographer@cartographer_s
The Mosquito Trail, Rocky Mountains of Colorado - Thomas Moran, 1875
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Emily Wilson was fortunate to be published before Americanists stigmatized use of the word "slave." Trying to fit "enslaved person" into all of these lines would have been a real puzzle!
(From the Whitaker review mentioned by Gardo)
PoIiMath@politicalmath
I've been following the "Christopher Nolan used Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey" story but I felt like I just didn't have the grounding to judge if Wilson's translation was good or bad So I talked with a friend who speaks Ancient Greek to see what the scholarly world thought of it
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@memeticsisyphus You need to be shining a blacklight into the woods every night to make them glow
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In case you were wondering
Ben Podgursky@bpodgursky
It turns out that flying squirrels live in most of the continental US, but you almost never see them because they are 100% nocturnal. I learned this recently because as I knocked down a dead tree in my backyard a family of squirrels flew out and I thought I was going insane.
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@CityBureaucrat Didn't understand the rainy bit with the Spanish fellas rowing over
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What do we think of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey trailer
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@TomBFlanagan Oodysseus… we hebben een serieus probleem
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They have done the opposite to most historical epics by having British actors speak with American accents. Nevertheless, I miss the truly ascended artistic choice for Greek epics: Dublin brogues.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has been released. In theaters on July 17.
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The Wind And The Rain
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Roman, Roman, what do you here ?
Your great Wall is fallen this many a year --
Fallen, fallen, the Roman Wall ;
And green grow the bent and the moss over all
The wind and the rain have tumbled down
What the foeman left of tower and town.
Well and truly you builded your Wall,
But the wind and the rain are masters of all :
Bravely you builded : but all in vain
Man builds against the wind and the rain :
The raking wind and the seeping rain,
Whatever man builds, unbuild again.
Man builds in vain, for the wind and the wet,
The water that saps and the airs that fret,
His pride of towers will overset.
Man builds : but all must fall as the Wall
You builded, O Roman, to breast the squall :
The wide-flung ramparts and cities tall,
Must fall as the Wall -- yea, all must fall,
And the tempest ride over the ruins of all :
For the wind and the rain are masters of all.
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@CityBureaucrat Men shot from unseen distance; chicks gathered eggs. Woe to the brooding mother who sensed a woman
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City birds are more afraid of women than men, according to study.
Finally, an interesting HBD study.
Scientific American@sciam
“I fully believe our results, that urban birds react differently based on the sex of the person approaching them,” said a co-author of this study, “but I can’t explain them right now” spklr.io/6012EKmwi
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Does anyone know what goes on here
KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸@brim006
If you’re ever bored at work, just remember that there’s a North Dakota Forest Service.
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