And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Can someone, preferably a recognized expert, please explain to me why the rivers in Ukraine are blue and ours are brown. Something to do with being "open sewers"?
Can someone, preferably a recognized expert, please explain to me why the rivers in Ukraine are blue and ours are brown. Something to do with being "open sewers"?
ReplyDeleteIt's a jacket illustration from a book called "Facts of the Blue River" authored by I.P. Peculiar.
DeleteBrown rivers are brown due to sediment, not human waste. Few countries on the planet protect their waterways from sewage as much as we do.
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From space; a work of art.
ReplyDeleteAt ground lever; bogs, swamps, black flies, gnats ...