February 2012
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Yesterday I saw a cave on the seashore. The door of it was big enough for a...
– Viking Tales by Jennie Hall (1902)
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Sentence of the day.
russiangrammar:
Я готов ко всему.
I’m ready for anything.
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Hark! A Vagrant: Canadian History Superquiz, 1 →
1. Which sounds more correct to you, “The Harper Government,” or:
- We The People
- L’etat C’est Moi
- The Government of Canada
- One Ring To Rule Them All
2. Memorize these figures:
- 49th parallel
- 51st state
- 19th birthday
- 18 in Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta
3. Which speech put the most voters to sleep:
- “Let me reiterate at length what I just repeated” - Meighen
- “You’ll...
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Anonymous asked: :*
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what...
– Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (via whimsicalimpertinence)
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via sunrec)
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Guardian: Harper's hockey hijack, and other... →
As MIT lecturer Peter M Senge wrote, when past meanings are continually imposed on present situations, “yesterday’s meaning becomes today’s dogma, often losing much of its original meaningfulness in the process. When this happens collectively, societies become governed by shadows, hollowed out myths from the past applied as inviolate truths for the present.”
There ...
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Dump fire sends smoke over Calgary →
calgaryherald:
The Calgary Fire Department is currently experiencing a high call volume for reports of heavy smoke over the south part of the city. The smoke is being caused by a fire at the dump on the Tsuu T’ina Nation west of the city limits.
I can see the smoke plume from my bedroom window. Delicious, delicious garbage.
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Enough birds for a while?
Yes I think so.