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To: Red6

Caesar mentions British vineyards in his commentaries.


17 posted on 07/30/2020 1:07:31 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

I believe Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC) says that they don’t grow grapes in Gaul (roughly modern France) because it’s too cold.


22 posted on 07/30/2020 1:23:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Reily

Kids today read poems from Maya Angelou in school, not stuff from dead old white heterosexual men. So how would they know that?

They don’t read Plato’s Republic, and that’s why they think they live in a Democracy, not a republic (they just regurgitate what they hear on the web/TV). They don’t learn to read nor write in cursive, what our Constitution and Declaration of Independence are written in. Clemon’s impacting the English language and one of the most significant US writers is essentially excluded (not PC today). The English Epic poem Beowulf few will read as part of their great public education, but my son did tell me all about global warming coming home from school. Shakespeare, many will never be exposed to... but they will read literature that is contemporary and deemed relevant because it deals with or was written by a homosexual, female, or black person.

With few morals (replaced by secular situational dependent ethics), culture and a poor public education, you can convince people of just about anything.


29 posted on 07/30/2020 1:50:32 PM PDT by Red6
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