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Michael Dirda THE WASHINGTON POST – In What Is Literature? Jean-Paul Sartre emphasised that authors shouldn’t think about posterity but rather write for their own time. This has always struck me as an obvious precept, even when poets and novelists can’t help but hope that somehow their best work might become, as Horace boasted of […]
The internet has changed the face of the world forever, but how did it come into existence? Let’s explore the history of the internet.
The stories behind these phrase origins are amazing. Too bad they’re not true—and too bad they’re often repeated as fact. Here’s the real scoop behind the expressions.
Hereward the Wake has gone down in history for his legendary guerrilla campaign against the Normans from the marshy wetlands of the English Fenlands.
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