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Humanitarians,

It's Siddiqui's week, but she's in Boston until Wednesday, so I'm pickin up her slack.

Today we started Oedipus Rex, an AMAZING Italian/Japanese version of the Sophocles' play. We will finish it tomorrow and then answer any questions you may have about plot/people etc. Remember, although not a grade, your viewing guide is there to help you. In case you didn't jot it down here is a handy character mix:

• Oedipus: King of Thebes
• Jocasta: Queen of Thebes, Oedipus' wife
• Creon: Oedipus' brother-in-law, brother of Jocasta
• Laius: dead former king of Thebes, Jocasta's dead husband
• Tiresias: blind seer/prophet
• Chorus: citizens of Thebes
• O & J's daughters: Antigone & Ismene

I'm sure you were reminded in class, but the reading load is about to get big! On Thursday you have pages 139-140 (hum book) due on Judaism & Christianity. Then you have a 40-ish page WHAP reading due the following Wednesday and a 7-page WHAP reading due the next Thursday ... basically, time to get your butt in gear! The study guide for the WHAP reading was posted this morning, so no excuses! 

Worried? Think you may need a humanities experience? Check some of these options...

• TONIGHT for a mere $7, you can go see Julius Caesar at Wild Detectives in the Bishop Arts District. 
• Check out As We Lie Still, a musical set in the early 1920's.
• the DMA is always an option! If you went last 9-weeks, then you can't go to the general collection again this 9-weeks - however you can go to the exhibit. 

This day in history: 

• 1874: The Republican party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine. 
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• 1917: Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexandre Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution. 
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• 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. After this is when the law limiting presidents to two-four year terms went into effect. 
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• 1967: Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
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• 2000: The US went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome of the election wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.



y'all missed a ton of hanging chad jokes. so many 

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• 2016: Janet Reno, the first woman to hold the position of attorney general of the United States (during the Clinton administration) died from complications of Parkinson's in Florida. 
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Have an excellent Monday! Enjoy Oedipus!

- cbg