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How To Make A Profit on Charity: Five Percent Philanthropy

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Where does the word ‘stationery’ come from? 🤔

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MERRY LISTENMAS AND A HAPPY NEW HEAR! Day 10: is music a universal language?

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Spoon & Tamago | Japanese Designer New Year’s Cards of 2026

Happy New Year of the horse! The year of the horse (uma-doshi) is said to be auspicious in Japan, not only because it represents strength, speed and energy, but because of the wordplay: umaku iku (meaning, “everything will work out”) … Continue reading

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This leather work

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BBC Radio 4 – Archive on 4, Robert Graves and ‘I Claudius’, L years on

It’s 50 years on from the first screening of the TV series I, Claudius – the hugely popular and perhaps surprising cultural phenomenon that brought the story of a lesser-known Roman emperor into the living rooms of millions of families … Continue reading

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American things that are NOT NORMAL in Japan

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Things in Japan that always surprise foreigners 🇯🇵❤️‍🩹

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380 Artists, 51 Countries, 14 Years: A Community Embroidery Project Connects Women Around the Globe | Colossal

December 20, 2023 ArtCraftDesign Grace Ebert Lekazia Turner, Jamaica (2022). Photo by Mark Pickthall. All images courtesy of Kirstie Macleod In her early 20s, artist Kirstie Macleod became intimately aware of the ways working with a shared purpose has the … Continue reading

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Why We Set Off Fireworks at Midnight For New Year

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