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That Time the USA Tried to Make Hippo Farming a Thing
[…] Sources: Miller, Greg, The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America, Wired, December 20, 2013, https://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopo… Scott, Mike, Louisiana’s Bizarre Hippo History to be Recounted in Movie ‘American Hippopotamus’, Nola, June 7, 2014, https://www.nola.com/entertainment_li… Holland, Jennifer, How … Continue reading
Which Language Is Closest To English?
[…] SOURCES & FURTHER READING Which Languages Are Closest to English?: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/la… Germanic Languages: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scan… English’s Secret Sibling: http://foreignlanguagecollective.com/… […]
Why Does And Have Its Own Symbol?
[…] SOURCES & FURTHER READING Common Symbols: https://www.scribendi.com/academy/art… Ampersand 101: https://writer.com/blog/ampersand/ English Symbols: https://promova.com/blog/english-symbols Logo Graphs: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-l… The Ampersand: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ampe… Most Common Words In English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_co… Pompeii’s Ampersand: https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/11… Therefore Sign: https://wumbo.net/symbols/therefore/ […]
What People Get Wrong About African-American English | Otherwords
[…] It’s one of the most studied — and most controversial — varieties of English. But many people still hold deep misconceptions about African-American English (AAE). Otherwords is a new PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this … Continue reading
How English Took Over the World | Otherwords
How did English become the most spoken language on the planet, and why are there so many varieties of English? Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and fınds … Continue reading
What remains of the “first” steam powered passenger railway line?
The Stockton-Darlington Railway wasn’t the first time steam locomotives had been used to pull people, but it was the first time they had been used to pull passengers over any distance worth talking about. In 1825 that day came when … Continue reading
Medieval Carols – Jeremy Summerly
From the first Christmas song by a 12th-century Northumbrian hermit, through the earliest surviving Christmas carol of the mid-14th-century, to the heyday of the carol in 15th-century England, Jeremy Summerly traces the early history of the worlds favourite musical genre … Continue reading
The Twisting, Turning Tale of the Invention of Dr Pepper
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I promise this story about fonts is interesting
Why do words look they way they do? That was the question that kicked this project off. I pulled at the thread, and it turns out the answer was way deeper than I thought.. […]
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