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 This week’s entry brings us back to basics, fresh from the elementary curriculum of life:

The evolutionary process, thought Darwin,
 may eventually let the car win.
 A creature with wheels — and brakes —
has certainly got what it takes.

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The wedding of the year is near, so we travel to a marriage in a very distant past indeed for this week's entry:

Osiris used to greet Isis
with, «Hi, sis!»,
an expression she tactfully parried
after they were married.

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By tightening the schedule a bit during Easter I may be able to finish my project by July 1st. Therefore, a new exciting female today:

A man born is a man cursed,
declared Ms. Emmeline Pankhurst.
She deplored how nature could botch
the design of a human crotch.

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London is still where I work and spend far too much time but also spend my time outside as somehow as I get older I need space and anyway love horse riding which is now my passion. Kids have grown up and left home as they  should and often I feel like a voyeur on their lives so full of fantastic suprises.  Trying to write more these days and get the creative bits working that have been long

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Understanding Myles Horton (1905-90) of Highlander (New Market, TN): Adult Educator, Southern Activist

By Betty & Franklin Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net,  first written on 23 Jan. 1995

           

Listen to what Mississippi's governor wrote in 1930 trying to attract northern industry to Mississppi: "Long hours of labor and moderate wages will continue to be the rule....Supplementing this

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My new design is now available.

 We have paid attention to Adam earlier in this project, so today we support equal opportunities and also focus on his partner:

The Lord did warn Adam that Eve
might have something up her sleeve.
But she never wore a dress,
so Adam couldn’t care less.

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Today we retreat a few years to find an intellectual topic and a spiritual uplift:

 A discussion that the good Dr. Freud
refused to declare null and void
was the question of what came first: the mind
— or the behind.

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 The subject of today’s V entry is a person no one expected to appear in this company, but after all this is a quite contemporary collection of comments:

If Sebastian Vettel
loves the sound of heavy metal,
it must be due to the timbre of doom
embedded in a «vroom».

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What makes great sense now may make absolutely no sense tomorrow!