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[ad_1] Few entrepreneurs would opt to open a brick-and-mortar VHS outlet in 2017, but Los Angeles-based video collective Everything is Terrible! is temporarily reviving the business...
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[ad_1] Emily Dickinson lived nearly her entire life in Amherst, Massachusetts. She wrote hundreds of poems and letters exploring themes of death, faith, emotions, and truth....
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[ad_1] “In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decreeWhere Alph, the sacred river, ranDown to a sunless sea …” Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s most famous...
[ad_1] It’s fair to say that some word origins are pretty straightforward—straightforward being a fine example of that. Then there are those word origins that are...
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