this week's popular posts
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Via Boing Boing , we are directed towards a mysterious, little used symbol on the Miscellaneous Technical block of Unicode known various... -
Some anonymous though obviously astute researcher left this decal on a lamp post a few weeks back coinciding with the return of testin... -
Revived on Broadway for the first of four times on this day in 1972 with Richard Kiley in the role of Miguel de Cervantes and alter-ego ... -
Pioneering parachutist and inventor of the rip-cord, Georgia Ann “Tiny” Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane on th... -
As a bit of insight into the formulaic writing (previously here and here ) of every streaming show, JWZ breaks down the first, often ... -
zhaocai : office cats in China face redundancy with startups closing utterly buttery : an etymological lesson and childhood memory on oleom... -
Also known as the above legal entity the sterling area came into being in 1931 when the pound was unpegged from the gold standard ... -
amelia bedelia : reading suggestions for adults informed by one’s favourite children’s literature the suwaลki gap : Lithuania blocks some... -
The free four-day concert hosted in Pilton—the second Glastonbury festival, opened on this day in 1971 with the venue of a special Pyrami...
