#Dickens

Cindy Noir✨

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Y’all sleep? Cool. I never seen love and basketball straight through. What the hell is this....? This movie ain’t over yet but WHAT..all these years I been seeing folks glorifying

Prof Kate Williams 💙

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I recently realised that Mrs Bennet of Pride and Prejudice (she of the ‘nerves’) could be 39. She’s probably 42 or so. Jane is 22 and Mrs B married young.

BBC Future

BBC_Future

This #AdaLovelaceDay , we're resurfacing some of our favourite pieces from #MissedGenius, which celebrates the life and achievements of scientists, mathematicians and engineers overlooked in their time. Here are some

Dr. Emily Friedman

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The finalists for the "add a new text to this course" are in! And it is an amazing list. A reminder: the course is the sophomore-level British literature post-1789, taught

A Christmas Carol

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Let's talk about BELLS ***a thread***Bells have long been used throughout history - to celebrate, to warn, to commemorate, & to communicate. One of the most prominent

gabriel ✨

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the oc vs gossip girl thread marissa cooper or serena van der woodsen? summer roberts or blair waldorf? ryan atwood or nate archibald? seth cohen or dan humphrey? luke ward

Tom Holland

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"But it was always the case that London, as if in imitation of individual citizens belonging to it, had expiring fits and starts of restlessness" - Charles Dickens, 'Night Walks'

Cllr Cal Corkery

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Really useful analysis of the proposed Clean Air Zone changes. The administration is set to remove a series of major roads with dangerous pollution levels from the CAZ due to

Freja selling content (18+ only)

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You come to my room. You find me very busy reading some all-time classics of Charles Dickens. The creaking of the door disturbs my calmness and distracts me from the

Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark

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THREAD: Photographs of Victorian Britain’s most famous #forger, Edward #Simpson, aka #Flint #Jack (c.1815-c.1874). There are few early images, but this one shows him as an itinerant #fossil and #antiquities

James Cooray Smith

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Pip Baker and his wife and co-writer Jane kept Doctor Who on the road in 1986. When scripts by other people repeatedly fell through they wrote nine episodes at incredibly

Jessica Lahey

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Good morning language dweeb Tweeps! Yesterday we discussed two kinds of repetition used as a rhetorical device: epizeuxis and epimone, the simplest forms. Consecutive repetition of words/phrases. Today we will

The Claremont Run

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Similar to recent films like “Dredd” and “The Raid” (or old ones like “Metropolis”) Claremont creates a spatial metaphor in “Wolverine Alone” that has a hero literally fighting his way

Delilah S. Dawson

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Listening to one of my favorite podcasts, in which experts and outliers give advice. My main complaint? "I only read classics/literature/real fiction." Look, y'all know Dickens was pulp and Willy

Jhanteigh Kupihea

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Instead of *just* posting this graphic over and over again, I'll try to convince you to buy this book by telling you the 10 things that THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S

Revolutionary Memes For Bahujan Teens

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She also lifted sentences verbatim from Paul Romer's piece. Ironically, Shamika doesn't shy away from calling herself India's most trusted "COVID calculator". A few days ago Marathi daily Loksatta's Brahmin