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Legend has it that hardly anyone turned up for the opening night of Jean Giraudoux's (1) play La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu. Taking the billboards for the play too literally, Parisian theatregoers thought it had been cancelled. True or not, it’s tempting to read this anecdote as a tribute in reverse - even more sublime for being unintended - to the original ruse that ended the Trojan War. The beleaguered Trojans tricked into hauling that wooden, warrior-filled horse inside their unscalable walls - this is the Odyssean Moment: that seminal turning point in military prehistory, when obfuscation and deception joined high courage and brutal force in the human arsenal of war.
540 - "Sham Paris": An Entire City’s Stunt Double | Strange Maps | Big Think
There are many natural wonders in the animal kingdom, perhaps none so unusual as the Glass Frog. This tiny frog gets its name because of the translucent skin on its underside (and in some species the top as well) that allows you to see its inner organs, right down to its beating heart! Glass frog showing its inner organs
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Writers and editors might review this 1960 F.L. Lucas essay, On the Fascination of Style , brought to my attention by Stan Carey . Much is still relevant, particularly these principles:
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Back in December of 1996, worried about the influence of Green Day 's "explicit" fourth album, Insomniac , on her 8-year-old son, a mother decided to write a slightly aggressive letter of complaint to the band. It clearly hit a nerve, and she soon received a handwritten response from then-24-year-old frontman Billie Joe Armstrong . Both letters can be seen below. I am a parent, and I am very disturbed by the cassette tape my 8 year old son was listening to. His 60 year old grandmother bought it for him as a birthday present and was totally unaware of its explicit content. The store in which she bought it did not have any ticket or color on it to warn parents of the content within.
Mary Jo Bang: On Learning, Self-Discipline, and Taking the Road Less Traveled :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
Although the world at large knows Mary Jo Bang primarily as an award-winning poet, her biography is full of unexpected twists. She has earned no less than five degrees—a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University, a B.A. in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London, training as a Physician's Assistant at St. Louis University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University—and she has worked as a commercial photographer, a research assistant to a geneticist, a welfare caseworker, a sweatshop garmet worker, a writer, and a teacher, among other things. Drawing on the richness of these many incarnations, Bang has published six books of poems to date, including The Eye Like a Strange Balloon , Louise in Love , The Bride of E , and Elegy , which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante's Inferno , with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2012.rhubarb
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Chimera (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(not to be confused with Hemera , the Greek goddess of daytime) The Chimera (also Chimaera or Chimæra ) ( / k ɨ ˈ m ɪər ə / or / k aɪ ˈ m ɪər ə / ; Greek : Χίμαιρα , Khimaira , from χίμαρος, khimaros , "she-goat") was, according to Greek mythology , a monstrous fire-breathing female creature of Lycia in Asia Minor , composed of the parts of multiple animals: upon the body of a lioness with a tail that ended in a snake 's head, the head of a goat arose on her back at the center of her spine. The Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra .
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