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Why I worship Helios

This is why.

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Reading rewires your brain

A study suggests that reading engaging literature will change the way you think.

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Find a Town

Old Towns of England.

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We Knew, But We Didn’t Care

Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and their forest friends are "seriously troubled individuals" according to Canadian researchers.

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The weblog as a commonplace book

A metaphor that is already a couple of years old, and I haven’t noticed it until now. But it is a fitting metaphor — or it may be, if the weblogger is inclined to make use of the Internet in such a manner.
Or is the coffeehouse a more fitting metaphor? I think it a [...]

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George Orwell - Complete works, Biography, Quotes, Essays

As far as I can work out, Orwell is still under copyright.

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Carnivalesque 32 - commonplaces

An early modern edition up at Serendipities

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Sixteenth-Century Jests

Transcribed for your pleasure.

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HDR Photos

castles and palaces

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Mozart

It seems the great composer could be rather vulgar. Or perhaps he had Tourette Syndrome.

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