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For they pay honours to Poseidon on the eighth day of every month. The number eight, as the first cube of an even number and the double of the first square, fitly represents the steadfast and immovable power of this god, to whom we give the epithets of Securer and Earth-stayer.

Plutarch, The Life of Theseus.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Theseus*.html

To this day, the Chinese consider number 8 to be special.

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These and similar speculations will perhaps attract readers by their novelty and extravagance, rather than offend them by their fabulous character.

Plutarch, The Life of Romulus.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Romulus*.html

Fucking Moron (tm)

Mr. Trump said Dr. Redfield misunderstood the question, “but we are beyond that now.” The president added that “there are some people who don’t like the mask.”

At the Senate hearing, Dr. Redfield held up a mask and said it “is more guaranteed to protect me against Covid than when I take a Covid vaccine, because the immunogenicity may be 70%. And if I don’t get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me. This face mask will.” He repeated that message in his tweet.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-news-09-16-2020-11600244664

It's really unfortunate that we have a self-serving ignoramus playing the role of the US president during the time of an epidemic. Any CEO of a public company would be fired for this type of behavior.

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The financial crisis killed America's Second Industrial Revolution, which started in the early 1960s.



https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-promise-to-revive-coal-thwarted-by-falling-demand-cheaper-alternatives-11600269350