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In Maine questions are often answered by fighting dogs.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it. Those who do know history are often amused. We read in the paper that an argument between two teenagers sent their parents to the hospital with dog bites. Because the world is very old, you can believe that this was not the first time snippety kids drew their parents into a fight that was finally resolved by the family mastiff. But the teenagers didn’t know that and their parents didn’t know that and a pit bull could care less. But you can be sure that the very same thing happened many thousands of years ago which is why laws were established to keep people out of trouble in general and out of jail in particular. Countless thousands of years after that, people in what is now Iraq learned to write and these laws were scratched into soft clay. There also exists an 8 foot high stone that contain the so-called laws of Hammurabi, and you...
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