Gaius Appuleius Diocles was an illiterate 2nd century Lusitanian who made the biggest of the big time on the hugely popular chariot-racing circuit in Rome. The Romans took their chariot racing extremely seriously. There was four factions: the Reds, the Greens, the Whites, and the Blues….
I’ve thought this a lot of times…
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Oh, USA, I love your freedom, prosperity and innovation… USA number one!
This is part of an e-mail I received from MoveOn.org this morning:
On November 19, 2011, my father, 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., was shot and killed in his home in White Plains, New York.
My father was a 20-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections and proudly…
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Bertrand Russell, “A History of Western Philosophy”
Logic or emotions. The great dilemma.
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- Christopher Isherwood, “A Single Man”
- William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”
- John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”
Mandy Stadther
Minnesota, USA
King Penguin chicks, Gold Harbor, South Georgia
You know that “Woolly Penguin” I posted yesterday? The oddly-shaped King Penguin chick that was on the illustration always looked like a juvenile penguin to me, but in real life, they look much more like the adult form of a distinct species (even if they’re still rather plump). In the background, you can see the adults who mind the creche, which, for most of the year, are almost the same height as the juveniles.
Given that most penguin species fledge shortly after reaching adult height, and are typically in various states of losing their juvenile coat while at that full height, the confusion of the early explorers encountering these guys is more obvious.
