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Derryl Murphy's avatar

Unrelated to everything but one tiny portion of the wide net you threw (as always), Miles Standish was the executor of my great-grandfather's to the nth removal will. A weird fact that always comes to mind when I hear Michael Stipe sing his name in "Begin the Begin."

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Timber Fox's avatar

Speaking of the original apocalyptic wasteland...

Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe, is a good read into why Australia looks the way it does now. And that's Sheep. The First Australians tended the land better, with prescribed burns and planting, which kept the scrub from taking over. Yams and native grasses that fight erosion were gobbled up by the invasive livestock. There are multiple colonist narratives that describe land looking like manicured English parks and forests that are overgrown with impenetrable scrub now.

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