There's always something at least a little arbitrary or haphazard about mythological hybrids – what is a catoblepas doing (a buffalo with the head of a pig) that either a buffalo or
We had hopes of a Friday open thread, but Joe and Daniel are still puzzling away over the broken comments system. Someday, perhaps! In the meantime, why not click around a while?
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Sisygambis was the mother of Darius III of Persia, whose reign was ended during the wars of Alexander the Great. After she was captured by Alexander at the Battle of Issus, she became
Now that we're partners, Jo is starting to learn the rules of this kind of interaction (whereby I text them "do you think ___ is funny for the next post"
Suggestions for future roundups should be sent to contactthestopgap@gmail.com. Either I've gotten worse at HTML tags over the years or there's a nuance to this CMS that
