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Category Archives: history

Aedile

06/29/2014by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

In the dying days of the Republic, Horatius Largus was still shoveling excrement out of roads and paying drunk plebs to pull the same out of sewers. Empires rose and […]

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business, history

Adz

06/15/2014by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

Ivan waited at the clearing’s edge while the old man carved at his fallen tree. Their breath misted in the clean, cold air, each after his fashion. Ivan, standing, breathed […]

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history

Advent

03/03/2014by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

You told me you loved the stories I told you about my past and the women I’d loved and failed. In your moments of doubt, love turned to bitterness and […]

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history, memory, weather

Adrianople

12/11/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

The Visigoths poured into the city like blood torn from an artery, a merciless tide overwhelming those who stared. Most Romans had the presence of mind to run but there […]

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history

Adrastus

12/06/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

Seven there were that joined their arms, and of their company of kings and heroes one alone remained. Adrastus had watched Polyneices, misbegotten son of Oedipus and rightful ruler of […]

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artifact, gods, history

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"All the while I have been forgetting the third of my reasons for remaining so faithful a citizen of the Federation, despite all the lascivious inducements from expatriates to follow them beyond the seas, and all the surly suggestions from patriots that I succumb. It is for the reason which grows out of my medieval but unashamed taste for the bizarre and indelicate, my congenital weakness for comedy of the grosser varieties. The United States, to my eye, is incomparably the greatest show on earth."

- H.L. Mencken, On Being an American, 1922

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