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Pella

[pel-uh]

noun

  1. a ruined city in N Greece, NW of Salonika: the capital of ancient Macedonia; birthplace of Alexander the Great.



Pella

/ ˈpɛlə /

noun

  1. an ancient city in N Greece: the capital of Macedonia under Philip II

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Half the films I’ve seen have been about guys gone wild, like Tyler Labine’s vile turn in Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja’s “Egghead Republic,” a sly satire about a “Vice”-esque CEO in the pre-woke early aughts who drags his abused underlings on a quest to find radioactive centaurs.

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The small brick plaza in front of the Pella, Iowa, public library was teeming with people.

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I’d traveled to Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, North Carolina and seven other libraries in Iowa before I arrived in Pella in late July.

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Other than in Pella, small-town libraries under threat didn’t invite me.

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Before heading to Pella, I connected with veteran Iowa journalist Robert Leonard, who was described by the Des Moines Register as a “Trumpland translator” and had been covering a string of disturbing anti-trans incidents in the area.

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