Assyrians still exist

[Sea Change]

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   I did write:

SC>> In real life, smack dab in the center of California is a city
SC>> called Ceres, and a decently large proportion of the people 
SC>> living there call themselves Assyrian. 

... and Rowen responded:
  
R> Sounds interesting and pertinant.  It brings up a lot of questions 
R> for me.  Can I find any information about this on the net
R> somewhere?

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   Sea Change responds:

Nope, not a clue.  This is all information I have learned by talking
to real people.  I'm told there's a website for the Assyrian homeland
but have never bothered to look for it.  It's a huge defect in my
character that I really don't like these people much (not having met
many but kinda not liking something major about every single one of
the 5 Assyrians that I have met), and I'm not terribly curious.  Try
using Chalabi and Ceres and California (and perhaps also Kiwanis or
Rotary), and minus for Iraq and Pentagon.  The LA Times occasionally
runs articles on California's Central Valley, so this might help you
research.


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   Now, Rowen skeptically continues:
  
R> If it were a cutting, Neville might have said, "My Uncle Algie gave
R> it to me.  It's part of a plant he got on a trip to Assyria."
R>  Slightly different meaning there.

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    Sea Change responds:

I agree my evidence is weak here.  I used to work in an orchid
greenhouse, whose owner was mad to go collecting.  She would
definitely take only one or two specimens from the wild, but she would
intend to propagate them to sell or give other conservators, years
later, not knowing who they might be.  

Similarly sister's thumb is only yellow-greenish and she loves
fuchsias, so I buy new plants with the idea that she might want a
cutting years later.  I never tell people "I gave her a cutting of
'Ballerina Blau'."  I say, "I gave her 'Ballerina Blau' for her
birthday.", and let people guess as to whether I spend a fortune to
purchase my sister a specimen plant, or am I a cheapskate and grew it
to size myself.

And, the Mimbulus Mimbletonia may be a slow grower and rather rare,
and Uncle Algie could have been cautious and gave it to Neville only
*5 years after* he started showing prowess at herbology.



Sea Change, who has mastered fuchsias, and is rather into passiflora
vines nowadays.  Pity I'm most like a Slytherin.