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On this day in 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet released their single “Take Five”!
“Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever. Revived since in numerous movie and television soundtracks, the piece still receives significant radio airplay. The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.”
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I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.
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brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.
ALT Pigs in a field, hillside behind them.
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Today marks the anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s death. The professor certainly knew how to throw a party.
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Santa Muerte: A history of the patron saint of death historydefined.net/santa-mue…
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1971: Highbury's housewives welcomed the return of the football season. Women from the local area discussed the benefits of getting the menfolk out of the house.
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16-year-old Ukrainian Taisiia Onofriichuk makes everyone go crazy at #Olympics as she performs to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'
A legendary song, and a future legendary #Ukraine's rhythmic gymnast? 🤩
#StandWithUkraine
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1927 Paramount Studio map of potential filming locations in California that best depict international regions
