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This celebrates the discovery of Richard III beneath Leicester's most famous car park, and also defends the city against Yorkists and archaeology against Steve Coogan.
For Central Bylines: The discovery of Richard III enriched Leicester in every way
I've written another article for Central Bylines . This one celebrates the discovery of Richard III beneath Leicester's most famous car park...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:33 AM
This celebrates the discovery of Richard III beneath Leicester's most famous car park, and also defends the city against Yorkists and archaeology against Steve Coogan.
#Faux #Cyrillic is a load of old crдp, ditto silly fake #German #umlauts 🙄
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The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp | Viv Groskop
To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears, says comedian and author Viv Groskop
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December 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
#Faux #Cyrillic is a load of old crдp, ditto silly fake #German #umlauts 🙄
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‘This is the real #Santa’s workshop’: a trip to #Germany’s toy village
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‘This is the real Santa’s workshop’: a trip to Germany’s toy village
You don’t have to be a child to enjoy Seiffen, the magical ‘home of Christmas’ where they’ve been making traditional wooden toys for hundreds of years
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December 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
‘This is the real #Santa’s workshop’: a trip to #Germany’s toy village
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www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
#Linguists start compiling first ever complete #dictionary of ancient #Celtic
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
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December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#Linguists start compiling first ever complete #dictionary of ancient #Celtic
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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How Hannah #Arendt helps us understand our world open.substack.com/pub/derspieg...
How Hannah Arendt Helps Us Understand Our World
Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: Her views are just as timely as ever.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
How Hannah #Arendt helps us understand our world open.substack.com/pub/derspieg...
Michael #Mann to Bill Gates: What #world are you living in? cleantechnica.com/2025/11/29/m...
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Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In? - CleanTechnica
Mann offers a roadmap against an "ecocidal agenda" driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and much of the press.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Michael #Mann to Bill Gates: What #world are you living in? cleantechnica.com/2025/11/29/m...
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#England’s #national #curriculum #review misses #opportunity to #revitalise #language #learning theconversation.com/englands-nat...
England’s national curriculum review misses opportunity to revitalise language learning
Capitalising on children’s existing multilingualism would be beneficial.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Search is on for the #German #hairy #snail in #London
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Search is on for the German hairy snail in London
Conchologists, and citizen scientists team up to seek out endangered mollusc species along River Thames
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November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Search is on for the #German #hairy #snail in #London
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The #linguist they can’t shut up
Shootings and snakes won’t stop Nicholas Evans’s award-winning work documenting the world’s smaller #languages www.thenewworld.co.uk/laura-spinne...
Shootings and snakes won’t stop Nicholas Evans’s award-winning work documenting the world’s smaller #languages www.thenewworld.co.uk/laura-spinne...
The linguist they can’t shut up
Shootings and snakes won’t stop Nicholas Evans’s award-winning work documenting the world’s smaller languages
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The #linguist they can’t shut up
Shootings and snakes won’t stop Nicholas Evans’s award-winning work documenting the world’s smaller #languages www.thenewworld.co.uk/laura-spinne...
Shootings and snakes won’t stop Nicholas Evans’s award-winning work documenting the world’s smaller #languages www.thenewworld.co.uk/laura-spinne...
#Vichai #Srivaddhanaprabha, the #football club owner who made dreams come true ⚽
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Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the football club owner who made dreams come true
The Thai duty-free magnate bought Leicester City and brought it the most unlikely title in English football history
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November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
#Vichai #Srivaddhanaprabha, the #football club owner who made dreams come true ⚽
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#Icelandic is in danger of #dying out because of #AI and #English #language #media, says former #PM
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Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future
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November 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#Icelandic is in danger of #dying out because of #AI and #English #language #media, says former #PM
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Quote from The Knowledge newsletter:
Two long-lost #organ pieces by JS #Bach have been performed in #Germany roughly 320 years after he wrote them as a #teenager. The two #scores, which were discovered in 1992 but only recently authenticated, were played in #Leipzig’s St Thomas #Church.
Two long-lost #organ pieces by JS #Bach have been performed in #Germany roughly 320 years after he wrote them as a #teenager. The two #scores, which were discovered in 1992 but only recently authenticated, were played in #Leipzig’s St Thomas #Church.
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Voters in #Hamburg have rejected universal basic income, or #UBI. Many #economists would agree with them theconversation.com/voters-in-ha...
Voters in Hamburg have rejected universal basic income. Many economists would agree with them
Voters in the German city of Hamburg recently rejected the idea of a free payment for all residents.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Voters in #Hamburg have rejected universal basic income, or #UBI. Many #economists would agree with them theconversation.com/voters-in-ha...
