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...What University is credited with the origin of modern football in the United States...
...thousands of buraku-min have tried to flee oppression by "passing." But the risk of discovery is high -partly because of the diligence of private detectives hired either by corporation personnel managers or by parents who suspect that their offspring's fiance may be of buraku-min origin. Many outcasts, while passing at work in the city, still prefer to live in the reassuringly familiar surroundings of their special hamlets; they must resort to ruses like getting off the bus a stop or two early so that fellow passengers who are not outcasts will not see them entering...
...lion dance, which evolved from the use of animal skins to work a spell on crops, and in their twirling of plates and vases on sticks, which recalls the practice of giving gifts of food to the tricksters. Anthropologists who see a migration across the Bering Strait as the origin of the American Indian point to the similarity between the feats of these acrobats with their ancient tricks and many of the similar feats performed by American Indian tribes...
...fundamentalists of this world, Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is little more than a fashionable theory. The literal truth on the origin appeared in Genesis: after filling the seas with great whales and creeping things, God created, in his own image, man. Despite more than a century of scientific backing for Darwin's theory of evolution-despite the victory of Darwinism in the famous Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925-the argument was still going on last week in California...
...implications of this could be fantastically important in tracing the origin of language.) but these are implications of something that has only been tentatively presented." Marshack said...