Don Jaide over at Rasta Livewire thinks they’re closer than most others do. If Bill Clinton’s black, then I see no reason why Helen of Troy shouldn’t be too, irrespective of what the original texts actually say.
I know much more about Maghrebis and Africans in colonial Spain than in the period up to 1936 and I’d like to correct that. Any books or articles out there? I’d be most grateful if you’d talk to me here.
I once cycled over the Dutch border into Germany wearing a ballgown and was quite fiercely stoned by small children, so this study by Ian Walker may not provide a panacea to our problems.
‘Jones is convinced, for example, that Jesus was wandering through ancient Mexico around AD 600, paying calls on various Mayan villagers. He has published “evidence” that the Mayans were well aware of the “resurrected Lord” centuries before the Spanish priests crossed the Atlantic and gave them the Good News.’
If United hadn’t made me put the bag in hold luggage, and if United’s notoriously light-fingered (and heavy-footed) baggage handlers at Chicago O’Hare hadn’t stolen my camera, I would be able to post a photo of a no-parking sign from a village south of Oaxaca, Mexico, which had lost the ESTACION from NO ESTACIONARSE–figure it…