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On this day in 2009, the ITV network’s Britain’s Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle’s debut album climbed to the top of the charts, becomin... -
Though in practise perhaps a bit premature and ill-advised given the milieu of a resurgence in COVID cases, we did nonetheless enjoy augme... -
Observed annually since being designated as an international day of awareness and mourning of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of the ... -
With illustrious alumni including H, Angela Merkel, Robert Schumann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Tycho Brahe, the U... -
Via Things Magazine , we see our affection for and fascination with the typographical samplers known as pangrams ( see previously ) returned... -
We tip our hat to highly discerning Things magazine for introducing us to the cartographic empire of educator and spatial narrator Daniel H... -
Via our peripatetic friends at Things Magazine we are treated to a collection of airliner seatback safety cards from dozens of airlines va...
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dress rehearsal : for a quarter of a century, an individual attended his own funeral dominical letters : how the artificial unit of the ... -
Not having grown up with the characters, it’s a little outside of my particular shibboleth but I think we can all nonetheless appreciate th... -
Collegially, the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache ( GfdS , see previously ) has selected a range of words for 2020 . In first place is C...
