What makes a city "cool"?

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Andrew Heller also recently stated the following:

“I also think a clean, safe, well-lit downtown with closely clustered shops, restaurants and pubs that stay open past 5 p.m. would be cool.

But that’s about where my creativity ends. If Flint suddenly is going to become a cool place to live, don’t you think we ought to have a better idea of exactly what cool is?

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Danny’s Inferno

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The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers) High
Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Low
Level 2 (Lustful) Low
Level 3 (Gluttonous) Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Moderate
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Very High
Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) Very Low
Level 7 (Violent) Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) Moderate
Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) Very Low

Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test

“The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy.

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Those Crazy Indo-Europeans

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I’ve been brushing up on my ancient history for work on Euphemism and found this little bit interesting/amusing:

Another serious mistake committed by historians who were born inthe comfortable sense of European superiority over backward Asiatics has been to assert that the Indo-Europeans had remarkable capacities for civilization and, wherever they went, impelled a great advance.

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