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One Halloween, when I was young enough to still go trick-or-treating with my parents, a pair of boys from my school ran around my block chanting “Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!” while I stood there in my out-of-the-box Darth Vader or Spider-Man costume. When my dad was the age that I was then, he was in an extermination camp.
Sometimes, the Mead of Poetry works indirectly. An old rock ‘n’ roll song is stuck on repeat in my head, spinning unceasingly between my ears. Actually, it’s not even an entire song. It’s just a verse or a chorus or sometimes only a line or two. Someone else’s creative creation gets lodged in there, doing work on my mind that only I can hear.
Correspondent Sean McShee describes the research connecting the domestication of horses to the spread of languages.
Scientists have discovered a fragment of a new Indo-European language preserved in the ancient Hittite capital of Boğazköy-Hattusha.
New research suggests that the common ancestor of languages like Spanish, English and Hindi emerged about 8,000 years ago, resolving differences in two competing theories about the origin of Indo-European languages.