- Jul 2015
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The violence that undergirded the country, so flagrantly on display during Black History Month, and the intimate violence of the streets were not unrelated.
But how exactly are they related? And doesn't this (of course it does) deeply complicate the concerns about "black-on-black" crime, making the violence experience by a black youth all part of a connected system of violence?
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either failed at enforcing its good intentions or succeeded at something much darker.
Why do we have to accept this as either/or here? Why can't we continue to embrace both sides of this opposition?
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a popular news show
Start at 9:29 Face the Nation, November 30, 2014
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- Jun 2015
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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In an article about racial violence, this erasure of whiteness is absurd. The race of the victims is relevant, but somehow the race of the killers is incidental. If we’re willing to admit that race is a reason blacks were lynched, why are we unwilling to admit that race is a reason whites lynched them?
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- Mar 2014
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gap2.alexandriaarchive.org gap2.alexandriaarchive.org
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Coes, when the Mytilenaeans received him, was taken out and stoned
Hdt. 5.38 The Mytilenaeans - instigated by Aristagoras - seize and stone Coes/Koes (a representative of the Achaemenid Empire).
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This was the way in which they perished, they and all their retinue.
Hdt. 5.21 Alexandros, the son of Amyntas, punishes the Achaemenid messengers of Megabazos for their ill treatment of the Macedonian women. He has them killed and his duplicity is hidden from Darius. Nevertheless, the Macedonians are under the thumb of Darius.
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- Feb 2014
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he stole out and killed Candaules
1.12. Gyges assassinates Candaules and takes the throne of Lydia, establishing the Mermnad dynasty.
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Tomyris filled a skin with human blood, and searched among the Persian dead for Cyrus' body; and when she found it, she pushed his head into the skin,
1.214 Queen Tomyris stuffs Cyrus head in a wineskin filled with blood.
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But Spargapises, the son of the queen Tomyris, after the wine wore off and he recognized his evil plight, asked Cyrus to be freed from his bonds; and this was granted him; but as soon as he was freed and had the use of his hands, he did away with himself.
1.213 Spargapises kills himself after Cyrus cuts his bonds.
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They sailed in a long ship to Aea, a city of the Colchians, and to the river Phasis: and when they had done the business for which they came, they carried off the king's daughter Medea
1.2. Herodotus reports the story of Jason and the Argonauts, without naming names. He frames the departure of Medea as an abduction, as with Io and Europa, rather than a willing elopement, as the story appears in e.g. Euripides' Medea.
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So he carried off Helen
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Io and others were seized and thrown into the ship
1.1. Io is seized by an unidentified Phoenician merchant.
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He ordered that the blazing fire be extinguished as quickly as possible, and that Croesus and those with him be taken down, but despite their efforts they could not master the fire.
1.86 Cyrus redacts his orders to burn Croesus on a pyre. Whether he does this to be in good standing with the gods or through some realization of humanity is up for debate (according to Herodotus).
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e. The Persians took him and brought him to Cyrus, who erected a pyre and mounted Croesus atop it, bound in chains
1.86 Croesus is captured after the siege is broken and taken to Cyrus to be sacrificed. All this in fulfillment of prophecy.
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- Oct 2013
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www.nybooks.com www.nybooks.com
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Victimization in Prisons a
This importance of the work of this organizations can hardly be understated.
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