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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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Once upon a time we knew what to do. A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre. He replied that in British culture it was the custom to hang chaps who did that sort of thing. There are many great things about India - curry, pyjamas, sitars, software engineers -- but suttee was not one of them. What a pity we're no longer capable of being 'judgmental' and 'discriminating'.
- Mark Steyn
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December 23
1900: The Second (Special Service) Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment arrives in Halifax from South Africa and is disbanded
1935: Italians begin using mustard gas in Ethiopia
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