If you can’t suppress a population’s beliefs or traditions or language, the only thing left is to destroy their land and their historical objects. That’s what the Iranian government is doing to the people of Gilan province and their ancient trees:
[T]he authorities have ordered the cutting down of dozens of two-centuries-old mulberry trees in the [...]
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Posts so tagged contain an unmarked literary allusion of some kind. (“Literary” sensu lato.) The first readers who correctly identify these allusions will receive as a prize a packet of fresh tree bark. Blogroll