From Ice Cream to the Messiah
The conversation recently turned, as civilized discourses so often do on a sultry afternoon, to…
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Birch in the Steppe
When I first laid eyes on this artifact in the Central Museum of Kazakhstan, I…
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Pontificating on a Mountain Pass
Today we found ourselves in the Pontic Mountains—the ones above the Black Sea, which the…
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Hippo, Cheese, and Kvass
Good day to you. Missed us? Here is another etymological conjuring trick. Have you had…
