Li Po wrote the following verse after his banishment from the Chinese Capital in 757: Homeless, exiled, I climb Sin-Ping tower.It is late on in
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It’s been known how determined and ingenious some postal authorities can be. There have been many anecdotes about it and here’s one of them. It’s
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Taste vs. Genius Taste and genius are two words frequently joined together, and therefore, by inaccurate thinkers, confounded. They signify, however, two quite different things.
An Awesome Editorial Policy
“Let me make it clear to youThis is what we’ll never do.” It really doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to spell:You’ll find that
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As a correspondent of San Francisco Morning Call in 1864, Mark Twain and San Francisco Chief of Police Martin J. Bsurke were in a relatively good terms.
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