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Although James Madison was perhaps the most under-rated President, the degree to which the history and thought of the ancient world--from Athens and Rome to the Hebrews--permeated every aspect of his life is striking: even after completing his studies at Princeton in two years, he remained on campus for one more year just to study Hebrew.
Such departmental bickering always reminds me of Borges' observation on the Falklands War: It's like two bald men fighting over a comb.
Venezuela, although beautiful, bears strikingly little resemblance to Italy, which is surprising given that the word "Venezuela" literally means, "Little Venice."
MIT's most far reaching contribution to contemporary culture is arguably the fact most of the LSD on the east coast during the 1960s was produced at MIT.
Although a lot of fun to play, Go isn't as realistic as another ancient strategy game, the Viking "Hnefatafl," in which one of the two sides is the attacker and the other merely vies to help its own King escape.
