I had a local bishop explain to me that the Amish word for ‘six’ sounds like ‘sex’ and he didn’t want me to think they were talking about sex. That kind of tickled me as I really don’t listen that closely to conversations. I find that children under the age of 5 don’t u...
If he were living today, Will Shakespeare would reside as a community theater local "star" amongst my many cousins in eastern Tennessee in a house with a front porch decorated by all-year-long Christmas tree lights and featuring a really big Coke Machine. My childhood friend Ernie from Glen...
a median 26 percent said that rule by a strong leader who could make decisions without interference from the legislature or the courts would be a good form of government. Countering any claim of American exceptionalism, the percentage of Americans who agreed was exactly the same. (“Sometimes yo...
Randolph County had an usually large percentage of “free people of color,” slaves freed before changes in North Carolina law made that impossible. North Carolina law gradually began to force even Quakers to comply with laws that required them to assist in capturing escaped slaves. Out of this...
A sizable percentage of COVID-19 cases and deaths in China and Italy have been health care workers. If the numbers have become hazy in my mind — was it 5000? 20%? — this is the part of the loop where I look up the statistics again, because what harm could come to me of spendin...
故填The Germans have destroyed their homeland.(3)细节理解题。根据第四段Arabs (阿拉伯人)took pity on the Jews' experiences during World War 2,they welcomed this group of newcomers who had come from faraway places.But they didn't expect that these Jews came here to build a...
(until the forced Nazi German relocation in the 1940s). Unfortunately, large chunks of Vilnius ghetto were demolished by the Soviets in order to make large squares and wide streets such as Vokiečių street. Vilnius Great Synagogue and most other Jewish religious buildings were demolished a...
Except for the Danes really disliking Germans, and Finns really disliking Russians, they don’t really have anything against other Europeans.The Belgians — Considered idiots by both the Dutch and the French. Belgians, in turn, consider the Dutch to be a bunch of cranky assholes, and French...
When I extracted the Jewish anti-Zionists, the level rose to 73%. Nobody should be able to spend any time at all in that group, without understanding the twisted antisemitism that drives so much of the activity. Mavi Marmara The report was so large, I split it into two. The first ...
An episodic sequel that contains a large percentage of the charm the original had. Hume Cronyn was a delight in both of his episodes. Shame he didn't resurface once more. Bait Once, Bait Twice (4.15) Loretta Swit, James Olson, Malachi Throne. With this cast and ...