Tag: place
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February 10, 2017
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Recently, I was having a discussion about Plutarch and I found myself really interested in the history behind place names. I give Plutarch much credit for preserving the stories and details behind stories that certainly would have been lost otherwise. We often take for granted the places where live and the streets we drive upon, not realizing that, often,