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Category Archives: History

The Smiling Buddha, and other Vancouvery [I read stuff]

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: April 20, 2012

Vancouver’s colourful drug past starts with Gassy Jack and goes up to today with a massive rally to honour 4/20 at the Vancouver Art Gallery

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Girls excluded from ‘Red Tails’ field trip; Thousands of Texas schoolboys brought to see the WWII film

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 11, 2012

When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas’ public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead.

One of the pilots is among those asking why.

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Weird Al, Women of WW2, and 6000 year old lovers [I read stuff]

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: September 13, 2011

LOLs, Weird Al’s “Party in the CIA, Women at War, and 6000 year old lovers

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I read stuff

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 9, 2011

LOL! Food stuff! Firefox! Historical Nerds! Killer Leaves! SGU! Interview from hell!

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Bastet: Temple to cat god found in Egypt

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 20, 2010

BBC Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple in Alexandria dedicated to a cat goddess. The temple is the first trace of the royal quarters of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be revealed in Alexandria. The find confirms the Greek dynasty of Egyptians continued the worship of ancient animal deities. Many more ruins of the [...]

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