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An architect wanted to join Africa and Europe, and all we had to do was drain the Mediterranean.

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A wine by any other name tastes just as sweet, but more so if it’s French.

Austin Chronicle

Most people have bone spurs.

Algacal

An architect wanted to join Africa and Europe.

Independent

Being the 7th son born in Argentina in the early 1900s meant you’d turn into a werewolf.

Werewolf Page

The god Khepri was thought to have pushed the sun like a dung beetle pushes poop.

Ancient Egypt Online

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BBC

King Cambyses II used cats as a meat shield to invade Egypt.

World History

A Black architect in the 1920s had to draw upside down so he wasn’t sat next to white clients.

LA Times

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