I’ve been on a dinosaur kick lately so I think it’s time to reread Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” and read “The Lost World” for the first time
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Nudillos – Franco_Ratti

Un relato intenso sobre la violencia cotidiana, la repetición del dolor y el valor de quien decide plantarse.
«A la salud del beneplácito subterráneo, brindo por mis nudillos y el valor.»
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Mi vida como vampiro. Capítulos VII y VIII: Una noche de discoteca, tequila que vuelve a salir, super-velocidad en la Rosaleda y el intento de contarle a un amigo que te has convertido en vampiro…
Humor cotidiano en Madrid.
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¿Qué secretos oculta la noche rusa?
Capítulo 1 de Rusia de Noche: un teniente del ejército, un agente del FSB y una curiosa oferta que lo cambia todo… ❄️📷
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"Quite," replied the Professor laconically.
"I said from the first she was clever."
"And I said from the first she was beautiful, and now add that she is charming."
"Congratulations, my boy, and many of them."
Tom Pitts strode down the sands towards his boat, and heaved a sigh before he heaved the anchor.

— Robert Barr
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Mañana helada, omelettes y una conversación que se pone coqueta…
Capítulo 28 de Restos de Almas Rotas: Aiden y Erina despiertan juntos y el día arranca con más química de la esperada 🍳📷
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DUTCH has always been my favourite study, and many people say that I am thoroughly at home in it. But heavens! fondness for a language is a very long way from knowledge of it. Next to languages I like geology. I also enjoy mathematics, but I am still struggling with the groundwork of history. Not that I do not like history; I think it is interesting and very…

— Raden Adjeng Kartini
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Ganz vergessen zu erwähnen, dass ich den 6ten Teil von Tee? Kaffee? Mord! auch durch hab. Das war übrigens vorgestern.
Hab ich schon mal erwähnt, dass ich die Reihe mag?

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Tee? Kaffee? Mord! Teil 6 - Tod eines Schneemanns von Ellen Barksdale

"It seemed to him [Euphemius] it would be a brilliant notion to call in an outside force to fight on his behalf. This same brilliant notion has occurred to participants in civil wars uncounted times in history and it has ended in catastrophe just about every time, since those called in invariably take over for themselves. Of all history's lessons, this seems to be the plainest, and the most frequently ignored."

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Letters CCCLXI. and
CCCLXIII., to Apollinarius, and Letters CCCLXII. and CCCLXIV., from Apollinarius to Basil, are condemned as indubitably spurious, not only on internal evidence, but also on the ground of Basils asseveration that he had never written but once to Apollinarius, and that as layman to layman. Letter CCCLXV., to the great emperor Theodosius, on an…

— Philip Schaff
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Ordericus Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy; translated with notes and the Introduction of Guizot, by T. Forester, M.A. Vol. II. Post 8vo. (Bohn's Antiquarian Library.)
Ingulph, Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland, with the Continuations by Peter of Blois and other writers. Translated with notes by H. T. Riley. Post 8vo. (Bohn's…

— Archaeological Journal
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On the Sacred Liturgy and Communion.
1 Pet. ii. 1
Wherefore putting away all filthiness, and all guile, and evil speaking, &c.
1. By the loving-kindness of God ye have heard sufficiently at our former meetings concerning Baptism, and Chrism, and partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ; and now it is necessary to pass on to what is next in order, meaning to-day to…

— Philip Schaff
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"Nothing you can say, my dear," said Mrs. Mendham, going off at a tangent, "will convince me that that person's costume was not extremely suggestive and improper."

— H. G. Wells
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INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

"It is all too easy to forget that there are emotional motivations in history, as well as economic ones."

#literature

I hid my heart in a nest of roses,
Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;
In a softer bed than the soft white snow's is,
Under the roses I hid my heart.
Why would it sleep not? why should it start,
When never a leaf of the rose‑tree stirred?
What made sleep flutter his wings and part?
Only the song of a secret bird.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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True Love
#writing #poetry #literature #life #love

We made it easy to join the fight for libraries at action.everylibrary.org

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'Twas now the hour when Night had driven
Her car half round yon sable heaven;
Boötes, only, seem'd to roll
His Arctic charge around the Pole;
While mortals, lost in gentle sleep,
Forgot to smile, or ceas'd to weep:
At this lone hour the Paphian boy,
Descending from the realms of joy,
Quick to my gate directs his course,
And knocks with all his little…

— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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ONE thing Dick knew must be done and got over with. He would have to see Elizabeth and tell her the story. He knew it would do no good, but she had a right to the fullest explanation he could give her. She did not love him, but it was intolerable that she should hate him.
He meant, however, to make no case for himself. He would have to stand on the facts.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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From the calm and stillness of a Scottish morning,
as life becomes uncertain and strange
we send you a waking breath…

—“Our Waking Breath: A Poem-letter from Scotland to Ukraine”, curated by Kathleen Jamie in 2022

Today, 24 August, is the Independence Day of Ukraine
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The text of “Our Waking Breath”, along with two translations of the poem into Ukrainian by Ostap Slyvynsky & Nataliia Drapak, can be found on the Scottish Poetry Library website
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The cold earth slept below,
Above the cold sky shone;
And all around, with a chilling sound,
From caves of ice and fields of snow,
The breath of night like death did flow
Beneath the sinking moon.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Born this day: 08/24/1951 - 75th anniversary
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. Ender's Game was recognized as "best novel" by the 1985 Nebula Award and the 1986 Hugo Award. The film was number one in North America during its opening weekend.

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The cover for Orson Scott Card’s Ender's Game, featuring art by John Harris, displays a dramatic, high-contrast space scene with cinematic scale. At the top, the stylized white title features thick, saturated red outlines; "ENDER'S" arches slightly above a larger, downward-angled "GAME," creating a sense of looming depth. A massive, dark silhouette of a colossal spacecraft or station dominates the frame, moving from the upper left toward the lower center. This jagged, monolithic structure is composed of angular black and deep midnight-blue sections, its hard edges punctuated by tiny windows emitting a bright, warm light. In the upper right, a large, reddish-brown planet rests in the distance, its curved horizon partially obscured by an intense glow. A vibrant, cyan-blue nebula effect sweeps diagonally from the upper left to the lower right, casting a luminous sheen across the spacecraft's metallic surfaces and saturating the void with electric light. Fine, vertical white lines, resembling sharp star trails or descending energy beams, cut through the center of the composition against the darkness. In the bottom foreground, a small, golden, spaceship glows brilliantly, its bright yellow highlights cutting sharply against deep shadows. The author's name, "ORSON SCOTT CARD," appears at the very bottom in a bold, pinkish-red, sans-serif font. The lighting creates intense contrast between impenetrable blacks and brilliant cyan, white, and golden highlights.

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Movie poster for "Ender's Game." The title is prominently displayed across the center in large, stylized white capital letters with a glowing blue outline; no author name is visible. The central scene features a single figure from the waist up in a heroic, frontal pose. The character wears a sleek, dark navy and black futuristic spacesuit with orange shoulder accents. Their head is encased in an opaque, golden-orange reflective helmet that obscures all facial features. Centered vertically down the torso, white capitalized text reads: "THIS IS NOT A GAME." The background consists of a complex, circular architectural structure resembling a spaceship interior or space station hub, with metallic ribs and glowing panels radiating from behind the character's head. Floating around the figure are various translucent, diamond-shaped icons in white and light blue. A bright, intense light source originates from behind the character's upper torso, creating a heavy horizontal lens flare and casting a warm, golden glow on the helmet and shoulders, resulting in high contrast between the bright center and dark, shadowed edges. At the bottom, six rectangular portrait headshots of the cast are arranged horizontally, each framed in blue light. Above them, names are listed in white: "ASA BUTTERFIELD", "HAILEE STEINFELD", "BEN KINGSLEY", "VIOLA DAVIS", "ABIGAIL BRESLIN", and "HARRISON FORD". The bottom margin contains technical credits, the release date "11.1.13", and studio logos including 20th Century Fox.

World’s End
By HENRY KUTTNER
A weird-scientific tale of travel through Time, and the terrible Black Doom, spawned in the heart of a meteorite, that will menace our descendants

— Henry Kuttner
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A path, old tree, goes by thee crooking on,
And through this little gate that claps and bangs
Against thy rifted trunk, what steps hath gone?
Though but a lonely way, yet mystery hangs
Oer crowds of pastoral scenes recordless here.
The boy might climb the nest in thy young boughs
That's slept half an eternity; in fear
The herdsman may have left his startled cows

— John Clare
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Passed his examination in Mar. 1816; and was made a lieutenant on the 16th Sept. following. We first find him serving on board the Impregnable 104, flagship of Viscount Exmouth, commander-in-chief at Plymouth, in Nov. 1818. His next appointment was, July 13th, 1821, to the Bustard sloop. Captain William George Martin, fitting out for the Jamaica station,…

— John Marshall (1784-1837)
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There is a mystic thread of life
So dearly wreath'd with mine alone,
That Destiny's relentless knife
At once must sever both, or none.

— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Kant's philosophy is generally designated as a system of transcendental criticism tending towards Agnosticism in theology, and favouring the view that Christianity is a non-dogmatic religion.
Immanuel Kant was born at Königsberg in East Prussia, 22 April, 1724; died there, 12 February, 1804.

— William Turner (1871-1936)
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Forasmuch as all other nations are wont to vaunt the glory of their achievements, and reap joy from the remembrance of their forefathers: Absalon, Chief Pontiff of the Danes, whose zeal ever burned high for the glorification of our land, and who would not suffer it to be defrauded of like renown and record, cast upon me, the least of his followers -- since all the…

— Saxo Grammaticus
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OUT NOW on #RoyalRoad! Bobby Champion, Too: The Mid-Card — Volume IV of VI. Masked as Mr. America, Bobby Tyson is gaining momentum with NAWF fans and moving into the mid-card, where he feuds with the Libyan Assassin. But trouble at home, locker-room heat, and Bobby’s growing modeling career complicate life inside and outside the ring. #amwriting #prowrestling #writingcommunity #sport #sports #literature
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The Women Are Marching: The Second Sex and the Palestinian Revolution by Philippa Strum #books #literature #dedication

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To David and for the women of Palestine

ERRY STOKES was a member of Her Majesty's civil service. To put it more plainly, he was the provincial hangman. Not a man in all Canada, he used to boast with pardonable professional pride, had turned off as many famous murderers as he had. He was a pillar of the constitution, was Jerry Stokes. He represented the Executive. And he wasn't ashamed of his office, either.…

— George Newnes
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Q: Is It Possible To Construct A Plausible Chronology For The Dwarven Rings Of Power?

ANSWER: I received this highly unusual request in January 2026. I was quite ill at the time and unable to even read the message. The request comes from user User Dungeon_206 on Reddit. He has been trying to construct a plausible chronology for the 7 Hoards and 7 Rings of Power of the Dwarf-lords of […]

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An old dwarf writes in a book near the entrance of a cave. In the background are scenes out of the history of Middle-earth. In the foreground is a large chronological table under the words 'Is It Possible To Construct A Plausible Chronology For The Dwarven Rings Of Power?'

Hey Mac did ye see him as he cam in by Gorgie,
Awa ower the Lammerlaw and north o’ the Tay?
Yon man is comin’ and the hale toon is turnin’ oot,
We’re aa’ sair he’ll win back tae Glasga the day…

—Hamish Henderson, “The John Maclean March”

John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August

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The John Maclean March Hamish Henderson Hey Mac did ye see him as he cam in by Gorgie, Awa ower the Lammerlaw and north o’ the Tay? Yon man is comin’ and the hale toon is turnin’ oot, We’re aa’ sair he’ll win back tae Glasga the day. The jiners and hauders-on are marchin’ fae Clydebank, Come noo an’ hear him, he’ll be ower thrang tae bide. Turn oot Jock and Jimmie, leave yer cranes an’ yer muckle gantries Great John Maclean’s comin’ back tae the Clyde. Argyle Street and London Road’s the route that we’re marchin’ The lads frae the Broomielaw are oot tae a man. Hey, Neil, whaur’s yer hoderums, ye big Hielan teuchter? Get yer pipes, mate, and march at the heid o’ the clan! Hallo Pat Malone, I knew ye’d be here, son The red and green, my lads, we’ll wear side by side, The Gorbals is his the day and Glasgae belangs tae him, Noo great John Maclean’s comin’ hame tae the Clyde. It’s forward tae Glasga Green we’ll mairch in guid order, Will grips his banner weel, that boy isna blate, Aye there man, that’s Johnny noo, that’s him, aye, the bonnie fechter Lenin’s his fere, Mac, and Leibnecht’s his mate. Tak tent when he’s speakin’ for they’ll mind whit wis said here In Glasgae our city and the hale world besides. Tha’s richt, lads, the scarlet’s bonnie, here’s tae ye Hielan’ Shonie! Oor John Maclean has come hame to the Clyde. An weel when it’s ower, I’ll awa hame tae Springburn, Come hame tae yer tea noo, John, we’ll soon hae ye fed! It’s hard wark the speakin’, an I’m sair ye’ll be tired the nicht, I’ll sleep on the flair, Mac, and gie John the bed. The hale city’s quiet noo, it kens that he’s restin’ Hame wi’ his Glasga freens, the fame and their pride. The red will be worn, my lads, and Scotland will rise again, Noo great John Maclean has come hame tae the Clyde.

Listen to Hamish Henderson’s “The John Maclean March”, sung by Dick Gaughan (1972)
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Chan e iadsan a bhàsaich
an àrdan Inbhir-chéitean
dhaindeoin gaisge is uabhair
ceann uachdrach ar sgeula;
ach esan bha ’n Glaschu,
ursann-chatha nam feumach,
Iain mór MacGill-Eain,
ceann is fèitheam ar sgeula.

—Somhairle MacGill-Eain, “Clann Ghill-Eain”

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Clann Ghill-Eain Somhairle MacGill-Eain Chan e iadsan a bhàsaich an àrdan Inbhir-chéitean dhaindeoin gaisge is uabhair ceann uachdrach ar sgeula; ach esan bha ’n Glaschu, ursann-chatha nam feumach, Iain mór MacGill-Eain, ceann is fèitheam ar sgeula

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The Clan MacLean Sorley MacLean Not they who died in the hauteur of Inverkeithing in spite of valour and pride the high head of our story; but he who was in Glasgow the battlepost of the poor great John MacLean the top and hem of our story.

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THE PROLOGUEedit
WHEN said was this miracle, every man :
As sober was, that wonder was to see,
Till that our Host to japen he began,
And then at erst he looked upon me,
And saide thus; "What man art thou?" quoth he;
"Thou lookest as thou wouldest find an hare,
For ever on the ground I see thee stare.

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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O gather me the rose, the rose,
While yet in flower we find it,
For summer smiles, but summer goes,
And winter waits behind it.

— William Ernest Henley
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428, and very shortly afterwards joined Anastasius in the denial that God could be born of a woman, and developed the heresy associated with his name.

— Philip Schaff
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