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Tuesday, 29 January 2013
"The door that I pushed open, on the advice of an elevator boy, was marked 'The Swastika Holding Company,' and at first there didn’t seem to be any one inside."
What? Why is there a Swastika Holding Company in "The Great Gatsby" — which takes place in 1922 and was published in 1925? It's simply bizarre. What did a swastika mean then? Why did F. Scott Fitzgerald put that name on a door that was pushed open on the advice of an elevator boy only to reveal the seeming absence of anyone?That's our "Gatsby" sentence today in the "Gatsby" project where each day we look at one sentence in isolation. Here, we are left to wonder. Or check Wikipedia. Swastikas go way back:The earliest swastika known has been found from Mezine, Ukraine. It is carved on late paleolithic...
Arms transplanted.
To an Iraq War veteran who lost both arms and both legs.Brendan Marrocco is the first Iraq War veteran to survive losing all four limbs in a bombingHis chief surgeon, Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, said Marrocco’s operation was “the most expensive and complicated arm transplant surgery ever performe...
Hillary: "I do want to see more women compete for the highest positions in their countries."
"... and I will do what I can, whether or not it is up to me to make a decision on my own future. I right now am not inclined to do that, but I will do everything I can to make sure that women compete at the highest levels not only in the United States but around the world."Assess the degree of bullshit.0%1-40% 41-75%76-95%96-99%100% pollcode.com free polls&nb...
"Soon after the fall of Ava, a new dynasty rose in Shwebo to challenge the authority of Hanthawaddy."
"Over the next 70 years, the highly militaristic Konbaung dynasty went on to create the largest Burmese empire, second only to the empire of Bayinnaung."Empires and dynasties galore in the history of Burma, our "History of" country tod...
"Me at CNN was not an easy fit."
"The first month was tumultuous with several tumultuous times throughout. I liked to think of myself as job security for the public relations department. About the only thing the far right and far left could agree on was that I did not belong at CNN."Erick Erickson, no longer the right-wing guy at CNN. Assuming CNN needs a right-wing guy "for public relations," what kind of right-wing guy should it be... and why did CNN think Erick Erickson was the guy in the first place? I suspect a bias about the right caused the choice, but that he was never really the right choice. Nothing against Erickson,...
"More birds and mammals die at the mouths of cats... than from automobile strikes, pesticides and poisons..."
"... collisions with skyscrapers and windmills and other so-called anthropogenic causes." Domestic cats — pet and feral — "kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year" in the United States — "most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway ra...
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