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  "thread": {
    "id": 513,
    "subject": "Silly Bus 2",
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    "first": "1998-04-26T09:49:59+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-26T09:49:59+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0778@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
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      "date": "1998-04-26T09:49:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Silly Bus 2",
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          "text": "Oh I know! John Julius Norwich\"s A SHORT HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM. This is a\none-volume condensation of a three-volume popular history Norwich wrote in\nthe 80s. I read the first of the three volumes and found it hard\nsledding---not the writing but simply the unfamiliarity of it all, all the\nstrange names and events. But if we're to take Wolfe's claim to have based\nthe Autarchy on the Byzantine empire seriously, we owe it to our students to\neducate them in that direction.\n\n-alga-"
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