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Dilbert: I love posting on 4chan, I can finally say what I think.
Dogbert: Uh, that wasn’t 4chan, that was a company wide email.
Dilbert: What?
Dogbert: Look, you just got an email from HR.
On this day in 1485, Richard III died in battle at Bosworth field. Leading from the front, he boldly charged at and killed Henry Tudor’s standard bearer, thinking it was Henry Tudor. He was then surrounded and fought bravely before being struck down by a halberd.
A horrible disease came to the United States from China and killed millions. I’m not talking about Covid-19, I’m talking about the Chestnut Blight. In 50 years, a species that numbered in the billions and dominated the American landscape from Maine to Alabama was extinguished.
Uhm, cheesed to meet you? Mice were a common literary and artistic motif in Greece and Rome. We al know of Horace and his tale ofbhe country mouse and city mouse, but do you know Betrachomyomachia, a 3rd Century BC epic of the war of the Mice and Frogs?