Orts #914

The Riviera: a sunny place for shady people.
     -- Somerset Maugham

Mississippi did not ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery, until 1995.
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Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
     — Cormac McCarthy (1933-  )
 

a bittersweet tale -- St Kilda, Scotland
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