Classical World

Classical history & culture. Cancer survivor. Tx recipient. Southern food blogger.

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Our websites. Please consider visiting them all and following...

Heart in Paris
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Tolerance Museum
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Red-eye gravy seems like a good way to start the new year...

#RedEyeGravy

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Just some basic pimento cheese, which has a dirty little secret about its origin...

#PimentoCheese

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My family knows me well...

#christmasGift #HappyHolidays

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
~ Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), “The Lorax”

#FavoriteQuotes #TheodorSeussGeisel #TheLorax

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Aww, Shel Silverstein...

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Today in NASA history —> 50 years ago on December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts became the first humans to launch on a Saturn V rocket. They were later cleared for trans-lunar injection and on their way to becoming the first humans to orbit the Moon.

#Apollo50 #NASA #SpaceGeek

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@Ocasio2018 Some fantastic selections as a former bookstore owner, English Literature graduate and current freelance copy editor we need more members of Congress that actually read important works.

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A few classics:
- Hope in the Dark, Solnit
- Why We Can’t Wait, MLK
- The Search for Common Ground, Thurman
- Team of Rivals, Goodwin
- Col Poems,Audre Lorde
- Bhagavad Gita
- Capital, Piketty
- 100 Years of Solitude, García Márquez
- Infinite Jest / Consider the Lobster, Wallace

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@Ocasio2018 @Ocasio2018 Some fantastic selections as a former bookstore owner, English Literature graduate and current freelance copy editor we need more members of Congress that actually read important works.

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“I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.” ― Sandra Cisneros #BornOnThisDay #ThursdayMotivation

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What's four times more nutritious than cow's milk and could be key in feeding our ever-expanding population? Chances are, your guess was not cockroach milk. But that's exactly the food that an international team of scientists is banking on to become the new superfood.

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Are the holidays stressing you out, buy an emotional support chicken from Popeye’s... #Holidays

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“Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie.”
~ Blaise Pascal, “Pensées”

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"Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
~ Salman Rushdie

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“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
~ Salman Rushdie, Baal the Poet in “The Satanic Verses”

#FavoriteQuotes #SatanicVerses

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“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
~ Kurt Vonnegut, “Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons”

#FavoriteQuotes #KurtVonnegut

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“The various forms of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people to be equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
~ Edward Gibbon, “Decline and Fall Of the Roman Empire”

#FavoriteQuotes #Gibbon

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A disappointing, depressing and not at all shocking or surprising turn of events...

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An utterly depressing read:
37 Tombstones Desecrated at Jewish Cemetery in France https://t.co/XpXJcyc9Dy

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Just this...

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A look at Ta’amia or better known as Falafel...

#Falafel #JewishFood #IsraeliFood

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“I know not what I seem to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
~ Isaac Newton