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For the confused people on my dash, Eurovision is an event where all the European countries have a musician and a song and they all battle it out like the Hunger Games. Only one will come out alive. They will become King of Europe and control the EU and everyone has to speak that language for the year until next Eurovision.
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder →
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
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Archaeological News: How stone age man invented the art of raving →
They were the stone-age equivalent of Glastonbury festival. People gathered in their hundreds to drink, eat and party every summer at revelries lasting several days and nights. Young men met women from nearby communities and married them. Herds of cattle were slaughtered to provide food.
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When you’ve planned out a whole story idea in your head and you’re so excited to write it but then you open up a blank word document to begin and realize that you actually know absolutely nothing about it and you’re completely lost in a sea of vague plot details and random dialogue.
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The giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), also known as the golden-capped fruit bat, is a rare megabat and one of the largest bats in the world. The species is endangered and is currently facing the possibility of extinction because of poaching and forest destruction. It is endemic to forests in the Philippines.
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A picture from an 1899 edition of Harmsworth Magazine entitled ‘If London Were Like Venice’. In the late 19th century it was believed that London was subsiding and would eventually be partially submerged by the River Thames. In response to this theory Harmsworth Magazine released a series of manipulated photographs imagining landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral, Regent Street, Horse Guards Parade and Her Majesty’s Theatre surrounded by canals filled with gondolas.
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At least SOMEBODY is taking the hobbits to Isengard.
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