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So amusing, when people say "one of my favourite books on the subject", as though implying that they have read a great multitude of books on the subject

So amusing, when people say "one of my favourite books on the subject", as though implying that they have read a great multitude of books on the subject. But they have not. We all know perfectly well that they have not

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Benjamin Netanyahu Was Asked: "What Are You Reading at the Moment?"

- "Jews vs Rome" by Barry Strauss - Why did you choose this book? - Last time we lost, and I think we ought to win next time From the lives of reading people

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There is an old, forgotten Russian word, kolbyag, used in Ancient Rus' to denote foreigners

There is an old, forgotten Russian word, kolbyag, used in Ancient Rus' to denote foreigners. Which foreigners exactly is not entirely clear: according to one version, the kolbyagi were predominantly of eastern origin. Such too are the foreigners named in the Russkaya Pravda "Varangians" (Western Europeans) and

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People could put up with the bite of a wolf, but it was the bite of a sheep that truly outraged them

James Joyce

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Curiously, among the companions of Odysseus (Matt Damon) in Christopher Nolan's new film is a character played by the South Korean actor Will Yun Lee

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The United States Has Stopped Minting the Penny, That Is, the Copper One-Cent Coin

The United States has stopped minting the penny, that is, the copper one-cent coin. A vast country, a great economy, space-age technology, and yet things did not work out with one small piece of copper. They counted, they reckoned, and they discovered that producing a one-cent coin

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Young lady, this is a chest of drawers from the GDR: have you any idea how long the queues for them were?

Photo: Alex Manchev

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When the building's group chat said "the residents' council has resolved", this is not quite what I had pictured

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The Most Ferocious of the Rules for Using Public Transport in Paris

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Macron posted an amusing video yesterday in which he chats over FaceTime with a representative of some tribe, apparently answerable to France, and takes into consideration a certain demand of the elder

Macron posted an amusing video yesterday in which he chats over FaceTime with a representative of some tribe, apparently answerable to France, and takes into consideration a certain demand of the elder. I did not go into the details; the video, after all, was not recorded for that, but for

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I don't know about you, but I only like the alphabet of Abraham; Enoch's and Ezra's seem off somehow, over-engineered

Each of these alphabets promises a direct line to heaven. Some to Abraham, some to the angels, and some simply to something of the otherworldly sort. Once you start looking into it, it turns out that all these celestial scripts were devised not on Sinai but in some European cellar

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