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Achilles And Moses Go Postal: A Lesson From The Ancient World On Gun Control

Howard J. Curzer | Posted 05.01.2013 | Religion
Read More: Achilles, Gun Violence, Gun Control, Anger, Moses, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Religion and Politics, Religion News
Howard J. Curzer

Achilles had anger-management issues. Moses, too, had a temper. Roughly 3,000 years have come and gone, and these guys still seem familiar. Maybe we will someday eliminate poverty, but the hotheads will always be with us.

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Call The FAA! Can't Won't Leave Airport Ceiling (UPDATE)

Posted 02.15.2012 | Denver
Read More: Achilles, Cat Stuck in Ceiling, Video, Cat Stuck in Airport, Cat in Ceiling, Ceiling Cat, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Denver News

For aircraft enthusiasts, the term "ceiling" typically refers to the maximum altitude a plane can reach, or the lowest level of clouds above the groun...

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High Art and...David Beckham?

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: War Hero, Carol Ann Duffy, Troy, Achilles, David Beckham, Pop Culture, Greek Myth, Achilles Myth, Poetry, David Beckham Injury, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

What poetic subject could cause such a stir? David Beckham, the dashing English footballer and global celebrity, who fell injured last Sunday.

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March 10: First Phone Call

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Gilbert-and-Sullivan, Apollo, Telephone, Alexander Grahm Bell, Brad Pitt, Troy, Connecticut, Achilles, Theater, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. He said, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." (On Wikipedia, t...

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Super Poems: Other Comic Books Inspired by Verse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Alexander Pope, The Hollow Men, W.H. Auden, The Imperfect Enjoyment, The Tiger, Betty and Veronica, Spiderman, Road-Not-Taken, William Blake, John Milton, The Fantastic Four, Lord Rochester, Iron Man, Cats, Robert Frost, Archie Comics, Human Torch, Captain American, T.S. Eliot, Calvin and Hobbes, The Waste Land, On His Blindness, Jonathan Swift, World War II, Dr. Arbuthnot, Batman, The Green Lantern, Achilles, Comics, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...

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