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Members of fifth-grade teacher Al Drake’s class at Philadelphia Elementary School work on a project about pollution, writing letters to the editor of the Watertown Daily Times in November 1975.

Ronald Mellor reviews "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" by Edward J. Watts.

By Susan Miles Gulbransen, Noozhawk Columnist | @noozhawknews May 19, 2021 | 7:06 p.m. The March column “What’s Behind English Words?” looked back on one of the craziest, complicated languages. Several specific responses attracted my attention. Many quotes are included below. May these informative thoughts add to your curiosity. Early English started in the fifth century, but today’s version formed during William Shakespeare’s time in the 1600s. It rates among the highest of 6,500 languages around the world with 1.132 billion English speakers, slightly above the next three: M...

Housing and Development Newsletter “A more intelligent way is to pose new questions. Take one example: the 19th century read fifth century Thucydides writing — the great historian of the Peloponnesian war — for insights into politics and strategy. In the 20th century, we experienced the effects of total warfare. Suddenly historians were paying more attention to those passages where Thucydides describes the psychological and moral deterioration that results from prolonged warfare. Nobody made anything up — information for both points of view has always been there. That makes Thucydides...