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Comments on: Forget The Alamo https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/30/forget-the-alamo/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 02 May 2006 14:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/30/forget-the-alamo/comment-page-1/#comment-5049 Tue, 02 May 2006 14:26:52 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/30/forget-the-alamo/#comment-5049 Thanks, and thanks, Bryan. You’d think I could find those on my own, but not this time. I’ll try to keep it to one question per comment in the future. 🙂

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/30/forget-the-alamo/comment-page-1/#comment-4963 Tue, 02 May 2006 05:09:10 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/30/forget-the-alamo/#comment-4963 Cottonwood is one form of poplar tree.

This is The Nose on Bibliomania.

Actually, one of the things Gogol was complaining about in the story was the acceptance by “polite society” of all sorts of absurd stories. This was the tendency that eventually led to Rasputin being brought to St. Petersburg. Miracle cures were the rule in Russia.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/30/forget-the-alamo/comment-page-1/#comment-4962 Tue, 02 May 2006 04:38:42 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/30/forget-the-alamo/#comment-4962 Apparently Texans are now supposed to remember the Poplar, in Saint Anthony.

ROTFL! Is “poplar” the same as “cottonwood,” which is the translation I was always taught as a child?

“[C]orruption, cronyism, and incompetence” are as human as politics and religion. We’ll never be rid of any of them.

An English text for “The Nose” turns out to be difficult to find on the web (the one that turns up repeatedly on Google now yields a 404), but Wikipedia has a good summary.

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