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It should be remembered that more than one hundred years ago, the British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem about what he styled as “the white man’s burden”—a warning about the responsibilities of empire that was directed not at London but at Washington and its new-found..

rule of thumb misconception

The misunderstood 'rule of Misconception Many feminists for years thought the phrase rule of thumb referred to British law's tolerance of wife-beating.. The rule of thumb, was law that allowed man to beat his wife so long as the rod used was no thicker than his thumb. ..

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