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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Famous Writers Shirtless: J.K. Rowling

A fleeting internet meme happened of writers in underpants--but it passed too quickly to be truly appreciated. So, occasionally we...
Fight like Sherlock Holmes.

Baritsu --a professed form of Japanese wrestling--was mentioned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his 1905 Sherlock Holmes story The Adventur...
Vincent van Gogh didn't have a dominant blue period so much as maybe more a blue fling with green undertones.

Brett Kebold is a data analyst who enjoys finding representations of life all amongst us, and decided to utilize his skill at data analy...
The dialects of American English, mapped in wavy, neon colors.

The Washington Post reposted Robert Delaney's map from back in the day to show how we Americans speak. There are quirks. Boston, N...
Stephen King = eye candy

When you think of authors/writers, you don't often have the image of "sexy looking." Sure, they might have a sexy brain, a se...
The Nobel Prize banquet menu seems fancy.

Every year, the Nobel Prize folks hold a banquet for those bestowed with an award for that given year--and tonight is that night for 2012. ...
If alive today, Queen Elizabeth I would look like Tilda Swinton.

Yesterday , a British history television network, worked with historians, scholars, and artists to recreate photos of what famous British...

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