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Kipling and hi-stories.

Today is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling (born December 30, 1865). Like most people these days, I’m not wild about Kipling’s colonialist baggage, but I do like this quote: “If history were told in the form of stories it would never be... ...full story at Granite Studio

from Granite Studio on Wed, Dec 31 2008

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