My Favorite Medium Reads (January 2020)

Variety

Mark Starlin

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It’s February 1st. The first day of a month whose spelling makes no sense at all [alright smartypants, go ahead and tell me that it was named after a Roman purification ritual festival (Februa) held on February 15th a very long time ago. And of course, the Romans got to name everything back then, so they chose Februarius as the name of the month. Later changed to February.] So why…

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