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#23 GREECE PART 2
14# AUTOSCHEDIASM
It is of course possible that Eur. indulges in autoschediasm … and freely inventsthe monument, but more likely he conveys a contemporary tradition which, forwhatever reason, Aristodemus could not verify in his day …
As a specimen of Greek trickery this does not strike us as very inspired; only animbecile would have been taken in by it. I suspect that it is an autoschediasm ofPherecydes’, and that the pad was suggested to him by that metope of the templeof Zeus at Olympia …
#21 PHILIPPINES
Did you know that the islands were dubbed “the Philippines” after King Philip II of Spain?
And did you know that depending on the method of classification, there are 125 to 170 languages in use in the Philippines, such as Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Waray, and Kapampangan?
13# RODOMONTADE
“The sloop I have the honour to command is always ready to put to sea,” saidClonfert. That was mere rodomontade : no ship was always ready to put to seaunless she never used up any water, stores, powder or shot …
She knows what she’s about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she’ll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage,he flatters himself that she’s devotedly attached to him…
12# RABBLE-ROUSER
#20 THAILAND
Did you know that “Thai” means free? It is appropriate, because Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia never to have been colonized by a foreign power.
And did you know that It is the world’s most visited city, according to the Global Destinations Cities Index, ahead of London?. It will welcome 16 million international arrivals this year.