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March 21, 2012
February 18, 2012
Boris Kustodiev - For 1927, Subscribe to the daily newspaper ‘Izvestiya’ and the daily periodical ‘Krasnaya Niva’, 1926
February 17, 2012
Things we wish English had: Better alphabet order
… the Devanagari alphabet is a much more elegant system. This alphabet was set up in the 11th century by Sanskrit grammarians who based it on phonetic principles …
February 16, 2012
This surprised me today, different versions of the English verb ‘die’ in Indonesian.
Wow. So much for death making us equal!
Sapir-Whorf 1 - Jorge Manrique 0.
I heard of someone spending his life seeing to it he dies gugur and not wafat, talking about obituaries
February 15, 2012
Konstantin Korovin - Among the mills, …
February 13, 2012
February 12, 2012
February 11, 2012
ἐλάα
(f.)
February 10, 2012
“grasp the nettle”
steppedthroughthelookingglass:
A boy was stung by a nettle. He ran home and told his mother, saying, “Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently.” “That was just why it stung you,” said his mother. “The next time you touch a nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand.”
Aesop
tackle a difficulty with boldness
“…he which toucheth ye nettle tenderly is soonest stung.”
February 9, 2012
Oh to be young and in linguistics class!
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Ink
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Mycenaean Greek, around 1300-1200 BC.
A ritual pouring vessel in the shape of a bull’s head.
The bull’s head was one of the most popular forms of...
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HEYDEN, Jan van der(b. 1637, Gorinchem, d. 1712, Amsterdam)
Still-life with Rarities
1712
Oil on canvas, 74 x 63,5 cm
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The History Of English in 10 Minutes
or, the funniest historical digest I’ve ever watched.
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“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”— C.S. Lewis
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Amalia Rodrigues..Barco Negro
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Biplanes over Portland, 1920.
C.S. Woodruff
