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Some Things Never Change

Posted in History, Society by Greg Ross on July 5th, 2007

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This is magnificent — it’s a document written on birch bark in 12th-century Russia, unearthed in 1951.

A 6-year-old boy named Onfim was learning to write — and doodling on his homework.