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Everyone in the Twelfth Century Was Named Matilda

Everyone in the Twelfth Century Was Named Matilda

Oct 30, 2023 The Middle Ages
Meet the Matildas
Changes to InDesign over the last 20-odd years, ranked, blog

Changes to InDesign over the last 20-odd years, ranked, blog

Oct 27, 2023 Ranked
a sensation of crawling, of the frames around things creeping around their contents, somehow sulking and scheming
Teen Bands of Y2K TV, ranked by how well they’d do on TikTok

Teen Bands of Y2K TV, ranked by how well they’d do on TikTok

Oct 26, 2023 Ranked
“Ow! My nose. Ow! My face."
Resolved: That Yosemite Sam Is Clearly Modeled After The Gallic Warriors Cassivellaunus, Caractacus, and Vercingetorix

Resolved: That Yosemite Sam Is Clearly Modeled After The Gallic Warriors Cassivellaunus, Caractacus, and Vercingetorix

Oct 26, 2023 Ars rhetorica
You cannot deny that Yosemite Sam is modeled after three defeated Gallic warriors! You simply cannot refute the evidence of your eyes.
Textiles of the Smithsonian, Ranked

Textiles of the Smithsonian, Ranked

Oct 25, 2023 Pretty
Off-white organic forms on dark blue ground filled with creeping vines in tan showing different, dark blue, leaf and floral designs at the ends.
Health Advice From Douglas Fairbanks' 1917 Self-Help Manual, "Laugh and Live"

Health Advice From Douglas Fairbanks' 1917 Self-Help Manual, "Laugh and Live"

Oct 25, 2023 Advice
"Yet the average man goes into life with as little knowledge of its forces as the baby who puts its foot upon the third rail."
Know Your Popes

Know Your Popes

Oct 24, 2023 Church history
Amphi-pope – (See also aqua-pope,). Governs the Holy See Sea.
Tuesday Obituary: Patty Burghy

Tuesday Obituary: Patty Burghy

Oct 24, 2023 Tuesday Obituary
The sometimes-vowel ‘y’ was the hippest letter in the alphabet and Patty Burghy already had two.
Blog Dream

Blog Dream

Oct 23, 2023 Haunted By
A sensation rather than an emotion
The Best Lines About Félicette, The French Astronaut Cat, Ranked By Poignancy, Glory, and Whimsy

The Best Lines About Félicette, The French Astronaut Cat, Ranked By Poignancy, Glory, and Whimsy

Oct 20, 2023 Ranked
Glorious: "The cat was subjected to five minutes of weightlessness."
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