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House Plans Vote to Ease Baby Formula Shortage as Biden Pledges Quick Action – The New York Times

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would move to provide regulatory relief and funds to bolster the infant formula supply, as the president said his team was acting within “weeks or less.”
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/us/politics/baby-formula-shortage-biden.html

Netsuke & Gashapon toys Ancient Japanese treasures and modern collectibles — Content Catnip

Netsuke are uniquely Japanese and sublime in their beauty. They are tiny objects carved of ivory, ceramic, wood, tortoise-shell, gold or many other materials. They tell the story of the culture of Japan during the old Edo period and before. Netsuke featured fishermen and farmers, who rubbed shoulders with scholars, samurai warriors, royalty and even […]

Netsuke & Gashapon toys Ancient Japanese treasures and modern collectibles — Content Catnip

French Friday 13th: Comprendre la Tragédie des Cathares

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

  This book cathars  is worth learning French to read: 

   The author cites again and again the terror created deliberately by the papal and civil authorities as they traversed LangD’Oc, and the unrelenting pressure for over a century.

 

Much more than just the sad burning of nice people (and This is why Each Person needs to Write a Book…):

1. The wiping out of a different culture (use of Roman Law), language, and religion
2. The conquest of an entire cultural region by the north (the ‘French’ annexing what was Provence and destroying the links between Provence and Catalunya-Aragon)
3. The creation of an Inquisition that served as the model for the Spanish Inquisition.
4. Innocent III -> Spanish Inquisition -> los Conquistadores -> Daech: All systematically destroying the writings (or Quipus and museums), languages and history; in short, the cultural memories, that came before them in order…

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