And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have… Death is the great leveller but an old age pension irons out the wrinkles. The Great Depression saw old age poverty in the US reach 50% and on 14 August 1935 FDR signed the Social… Continue reading #OTD 14 August
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#OTD 12 August
The death of Cleopatra on 12 August 30 BC is something that we in the west understandably see in a western context: end of Hellenistic Age, rise of Rome, and so on. But the queen’s death did not quite mark the very end of the Hellenistic Age. Two thousand years later, as the Middle East… Continue reading #OTD 12 August