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Salmon runs & water flows

Eleanor Konik
Aug 08, 2022
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One of the anchor points in the history of the fantasy universe of Verraine was originally inspired by the controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which I learned a bunch about because of a documentary I watched with my students. I wound up doing a lot more research into how dams worked than I expected, which is what originally set me on t…

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