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In his new book, Stephen R. Platt recounts the 19th-century Taiping conflict in China, perhaps the bloodiest civil war of all time.
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 223 weeks 4 days 10 hours 42 minutes ago
A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page, was sold...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown for team All gossip, all the time 232 weeks 1 day 20 hours 45 minutes ago
Of the wild rumors to circulate across New Orleans in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, one of the more preposterous was the tale that Gov. Kathleen Blanco exacerbated the flooding by ordering helicopters sent to attempt repairs on the 17th Street Canal to instead rescue...(more)
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Collecting regional English from across the US, final volume of 60,000-entry dictionary will be published next monthFrom whoopensocker to upscuddle, strubbly to swivet, 50 years after it was first conceived the Dictionary of American Regional English is finally about to reach the end of the alphabet.The...(more)
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submitted by enikhanjohorns for team Mysteries of the Universe 149 weeks 20 hours 49 minutes ago
Within this book is "the mother of the mother of all Dharmas," it is a collection of discourses Pamu gave to an assembledge of Buddhist masters of highest rank over a period of a few days. Unlike traditional Tibetan accounts, this book uses contemporary examples even...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 184 weeks 2 days 14 hours 44 minutes ago
The 1960s - famous for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - are also remembered as the beginning of the green movement, the time when people became aware of the fragility of what the eccentric visionary architect Buckminster Fuller described as "spaceship Earth." The fantastical domes...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team All gossip, all the time 121 weeks 2 days 16 hours 10 minutes ago
John Lennon raced into Yoko Ono's home office in the mammoth old Dakota building with a copy of Donna Summer's new single, "The Wanderer." "Listen!" he shouted to us as he put the 45 on the record player. "She's doing Elvis!" I didn't know what he...(more)
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A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so, in desperation, made her unpublished novel available on the Kindle. She has since sold over 1.5m books and, in the process, changed publishing foreverWhen historians come to write about the digital...(more)
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written by emma lohle 238 weeks 6 days 13 hours 52 minutes ago
nothing means more than someone elses words that speak directly to your heart.
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written by emma lohle 238 weeks 6 days 14 hours 27 minutes ago
i love the odyssey. i love the adventures of huckleberry finn. i love the catcher in the rye. i love english the language, i love english the class and i love books. but with god as my witness, i am not writing another essay picking apart...(more)
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C. S. Lewis nominated Tolkien, the "Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" author, in 1961, but the jury said of his work that "the result has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality," according to papers in the Nobel archive in...(more)
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In Zakes Mda’s new memoir, his life and hard times are mostly played for wistful comedy.
