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pardon? whoever is writing the storyline and is choosing to not include niki — why?? she has done so well contributing her parts to the lore. it was her character

Putri Prihatini

BlogTolkien

A few weeks ago, I submitted Serat Ngalamating Kucing as an entry for #FolkloreThursday: a Javanese manuscript that consists of verses depicting different types of #cats. There are still no

Jason Pontin

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Many, if not most, great writers were temperamentally conservative: Swift, Austen, Tolstoy, Kipling, Claudel, T.S. Eliot, (later) Auden, Larkin, Powell, Elizabeth Bowen, Waugh, Mishima, (later) Bellow, Sybille Bedford, Gene Wolfe.

Erin Kennon

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What its like growing up in White, Rich, areas of Wisconsin, a thread: Sophomore year of high school I had a boy tell me that he’d never met anyone who

foone

Foone

I was todays years old when I learned that Final Fantasy VII's Midgar Zolom is an exceptionally badly translated reference to Jörmungandr, the world serpent from Norse mythology. The other

Historica Canada

HistoricaCanada

The #HistoryWeek2020 learning tool can help you better understand environmental #racism, a term used to describe policies, practices or enforcement that negatively affect communities – primarily #BIPOC ones – based

Chelsea McGill

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1 November 1858: a large crowd gathered at the Government House in #Calcutta to hear the Queen's proclamation of the beginning of direct rule by the British government. It was

Callum Reid

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Boris Johnson is coming to Scotland today to try and salvage some sort of support for the union. It would be a shame if someone was to ruin his visit

Dan Barton

oreothlypis

I think the history of @AmOrnith's approach to the standardization of English common names of birds deserves a little attention so I'm going to tweet about bird names a little

Bodleian Libraries

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Q4 of today's etymology quiz.The name of which trade may be traced back to a Roman instrument of torture? (BTW Answers are being posted under each original tweet after a

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/9Good article. But while growing international criticism and rising trade tensions may have had some impact, as the article suggests, I don’t think they really explain the great reversal in

Mark O’Brien

mobrienbooks

I am once again asking people who want to be literary agents not to open their own literary agencies when their qualifications for doing so are “I have an English

Mr. Veritas

MrVeritas

As a public service, may I help those who are not PC or "woke" understand the mandatory language standards that will become "law" if Joe Biden is somehow CHEATED into

Raja راجہ - awaaz do, hum ek hain

Raja_Sw

Modi is a very smart politician.Much smarter than many give him credit for.This, combined with his ruthlessness, utter disregard for the truth or ethics, and an obsessive love for power

Michael P Senger

MichaelPSenger

1/ Xi Jinping and Bill Gates, a Love StoryXi and Bill first met in Beijing in May 2012, calling for closer cooperation between the Gates Foundation and its Chinese partners

Dijkinho

Dijkinho

The state of our fan base for judging Gerrard’s decision to manage Rangers. I trust Gerrard judgement over all of yours. History tells us that. Best of luck to him.

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