37 days ago by Maria Popova

What colored crayons have to do with deadpan philosophical humor and the gargoyles of Notre-Dame. Novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. As a hopeless lover of marginalia and voyeur of famous creators’ not ...

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37 days ago by jimrada

Here’s a fun story I found from Cumberland, MD, in 1875. However, as I wrote it, I found myself wondering if it was the truth. I’m not saying that the newspaper got the story wrong, but when I read the story as reported, I thought that maybe the “sleepwalker” wasn’t telling the whole truth. He succe ...

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37 days ago by ant

Blizzard has a eleven minutes has an "extended Diablo retrospective -- This Diablo retrospective was a labor of blood, sweat, and hellfire... read more

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37 days ago by Kent

(Georgia Avenue-Morton Street Shopping Center, August 15, 2011 ) What a difference 21 years makes. In reading the following 1989 article hyping the opening of the Georgia Avenue-Morton Street Shopping Center, I was intrigued by both the similarities and differences between development along Georgia ...

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37 days ago by Vlatko

Dan Snow gets down and dirty in the murky histories of London, Paris and New York, exploring their filthy histories from the bottom up. Medieval London. State of the art CGI reveals London’s streets as they were 700 years ago and Dan steps into the shoes of Watch now...

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37 days ago by Nat Torkington

Google+ Is Going to Mess Up The Internet (ReadWriteWeb) -- Google thought I would prefer to click through Google+ to find my article than to go straight to it. Severe rip of the negative effects G+ has on the search experience. (via Hacker News) Behind the Scenes of a C64 Demo (Chaos Communications ...

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37 days ago by Gerald

As an Amsterdamer by choice I can hardly imagine anybody without a certain trace of local pride when it comes to this wonderful city. No matter if you live here for two weeks or your whole life: the citizens of Amsterdam know in what an exciting place rich in history they live. Amsterdam DNA is a ne ...

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37 days ago by irishelectionliterature

From September 2nd 1931, a letter to each shareholder in The Irish Press from Eamon De Valera. The letter announces the launch of the paper on Saturday 5th of September as well as practical ways of supporting the paper. I’m curious to know if it would have been signed in person by De Valera, the [.. ...

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37 days ago by androgynbeauty

Second episode: Marquise de Montespan and Madame de Pompadour Continuing the story of the book written by the Spanish beautiful Isabel Rábago (here you can read the first episode), about the (French now, Italian and Spanish later) mistresses, we arrived at Madame de Montespan, the woman who, which w ...

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37 days ago by dptrombly

My boss and co-author Daveed Gartenstein-Ross recently wrote a post at Gunpowder and Lead responding to the question of whether major armed conflict had come to an end. In his explanation, he notes that not only is major armed conflict still a possibility, but that the United States should be skepti ...

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