March 2012
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mental_floss on tumblr: The Petticoat Duel →
mentalflossr:
While duels between women were not as common, they were not unheard of. In 1792, Lady Almeria Braddock and a Mrs. Elphinstone fought what came to be known as “the petticoat duel.”
Mrs. Elphinstone made a social call to Lady Almeria’s house and while there paid her ladyship a very…
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Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well →
amandaonwriting:
Rather than embracing the flowery prose of the literati, he chose to eschew obfuscation at every turn and write simply and clearly.
So let’s see what Ernest can teach us about effective writing.
1. Use short sentences.
Hemingway was famous for a terse minimalist style of writing that dispensed with flowery adjectives and got straight to the point. In short, Hemingway wrote...
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“My work has escaped my control, and I have produced a monster; an immensely...”
– a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to his publishers, February 1950 (via historical-nonfiction) Even Tolkien had his insecurities!
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I sooo can’t stand These two or the “Jersey Shore” i have to reblog many soothing blogs of interest just to get these miscreants far down my dashboard stream and out of my sight!
Nauseating!
hulu:
mtvjerseyshore:
Tonight on the Reunion!
I think they’re arguing over who the bigger non-news story is…or the works of Molière…yeah, probably that.
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Batty Dr. Bela
Okay This made me laugh! historical-nonfiction:
In the 1920s, Viennese scientist Bela Schick coined the term “menotoxins” to describe what he believed were plant-destroying substances that escape through the skin of menstruating women. He notes that menotoxins prevent dough from rising and beer from fermenting.
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