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"The story of Juan Méndez riding through the streets of Juárez, selling burritos to soldiers and civilians alike, is a story that a city told itself to build resilience."
Victoria Blanco for Orion: https://orionmagazine.org/article/feeding-the-revolution
#Longreads #Burrito #Mexico #Mexican #Food #Resistance #Revolution #History #Culture
Napoleon Bonaparte started a long retreat from #Moscow OTD in 1812 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/moscow.html?s=mb #history #Russia
Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and MoreTraveling and Working in Russia — Visiting MoscowRed Square, Kremlin, ironic post-Communist open-air museums, beautiful churches in the snow, and a downright strange hotel run by a government agency
Santa Claus began as a fourth-century bishop who spent years in a Roman prison.
The real Saint Nicholas: born wealthy, gave his fortune away, paid dowries to save 3 sisters from destitution. Attended the Council of Nicea. Legend says he slapped a heretic and resurrected pickled children.
Then a millennium of metamorphosis: Sinterklaas, Father Christmas, and finally the red-suited ad icon.
New essay on the man behind the myth: https://jhrln.link/nicholas-masto
Jeffrey HarlanFrom the Bishop of Myra to the Man in Red: Who Was Saint Nicholas?Santa Claus began as a fourth-century bishop who spent years in a Roman prison. The strange history of Saint Nicholas — and the novel that resurrected him.
The Soviet Union and Japan signed a Joint Declaration OTD in 1956, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/wwii-cryptanalysis/?s=mb #history
Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and MoreCryptanalysis and the Nuclear BombsThe nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes more sense once Japan's internal communications were revealed after 50 years of official Allied secrecy.
