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Mylae

R Mylae

The battle of Mylae (260 B.C.) in the First Punic War, which, like World War I, was fought for economic reasons. (NA)

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link two →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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