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Sunday, 14 December 2025
quote [ Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery. ]
Go get your penicillin.
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Saturday, 13 December 2025
quote [ Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet effectiveness of collective action. ]
And you'll see it's a wonderful life
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Friday, 12 December 2025
quote [ How the shipping container, a dominant force in ocean shipping, came from a truck driver whose invention proved to be too good at its job. ]
I be overseas like shipping containers
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Thursday, 11 December 2025
quote [ In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Iván Moure Pazos tours the psychedelic chambers of Rochetta Mattei, optimised for electrohomeopathic healing, and Castello di Sammezzano, an immersive, orientalist fever dream. ]
I'll get lost at night in Italy
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Wednesday, 10 December 2025
quote [ Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import grain—which possibly carried fleas infected with the bubonic plague ]
And black death raged across the land
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Tuesday, 9 December 2025
quote [ Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story. ]
Cats hanging down like in Philly
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Monday, 8 December 2025
quote [ On a freezing January night in 1393, music and laughter filled the Hôtel Saint-Pol, a sprawling palace on the right bank of Paris. The French court had gathered for a masquerade ball in honour of a lady-in-waiting’s remarriage — a diversion meant to lift the spirits of King Charles VI, a 24-year-old monarch already shadowed by bouts of mental instability. ]
The smell of death and dried blood
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Sunday, 7 December 2025
quote [ In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement. ]
Oh, with the smuggling crew
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Saturday, 6 December 2025
quote [ Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical. ]
They'll study me like literary
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Friday, 5 December 2025
quote [ Just as the sun begins to peek over the flat horizon of Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1,383 pigeons fill the sky. The birds pour out as a single winged mass from the rows of flung-open coops on the transport truck. They rise and circle higher into the morning air. Strong gusts from the south-southwest soon scatter them into hundreds of solitary black dots across the slabs of clouds. ]
Racing pigeons in the sky
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