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• Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow’s Impressions Of London

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  SA GA YEAN QUA RASH TOW’S IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON.Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit.Juv., Sat. xiv. 321.Good taste and nature always speak the same.When the four Indian kings were in this country about a twelvemonth ago, I often mixed with the rabble, and followed them a whole day together, being ...
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• True amd False Humour

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  TRUE AND FALSE HUMOUR.—Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.Catull., Carm. 39 in Egnat.Nothing so foolish as the laugh of fools.Among all kinds of writing, there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.  It is not an ...
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• Lampoons

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  LAMPOONS.Sævit atrox Volscens, nec teli conspicit usquamAuctorem, nec quò se ardens immittere possit.Virg., Æn. ix. 420.Fierce Volscens foams with rage, and, gazing round,Descry’d not him who gave the fatal wound;Nor knew to fix revenge.Dryden.There is nothing that more betrays a base, ungenerous spirit than ...
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• Italian Opera

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  THE ITALIAN OPERA.—Equitis quoque jam migravit ab aure voluptasOmnis ad incertos oculos, et gaudia vana.Hor., Ep. ii. 1, 187.But now our nobles too are fops and vain,Neglect the sense, but love the painted scene.Creech.It is my design in this paper to deliver down to posterity a faithful account of the Italian ...
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• Women and Wives

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  WOMEN AND WIVES.Parva leves capiunt animos.—Ovid, Ars Am., i. 159.Light minds are pleased with trifles.When I was in France, I used to gaze with great astonishment at the splendid equipages, and party-coloured habits of that fantastic nation.  I was one day in particular contemplating a lady that sat in a coach ...
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• Chucklehead’s Pinstripe Plaza

  
  Zingology — Authority: 130
  This was one of the troupe’s favorite videos.  We shot it in Alphabet City and Spanish Harlem in the late 1980s.  It’s notable for a lot of reasons.  One is that we always took advantage of the environment.  We used the crumbling buildings of Alphabet City, for example, to depict NYC after WWIII.  And New ...
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• Household Superstitions

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  HOUSEHOLD SUPERSTITIONS.Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas,Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Thessala rides?Hor., Ep. ii. 2, 208.Visions and magic spells, can you despise,And laugh at witches, ghosts, and prodigies?Going yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance, I had the misfortune to find his whole family ...
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• Public Credot

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  PUBLIC CREDIT.—Quoi quisque ferè studio devinctus adhæretAut quibus i rebus multùm sumus antè moratiAtque in quô ratione fuit contenta magis mens,In somnis cadem plerumque videmur obire.Lucr., iv. 959.—What studies please, what most delight,And fill men’s thoughts, they dream them o’er at night.Creech.In ...
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• Introduction to Essays and Tales by Joseph Addison

  
  Tellmeonline.Net — Authority: 141
  The sixty-fourth volume of this Library contains those papers from the Tatler which were especially associated with the imagined character of Isaac Bickerstaff, who was the central figure in that series; and in the twenty-ninth volume there is a similar collection of papers relating to the Spectator Club and Sir ...
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• JAMIE CULLUMs "The Pursuit" to Get US Release; Tour Announced

  
  Music News Net — Authority: 138
    MUSIC NEWS - English singer/songwriter/pianist/multi-instrumentalist Jamie Cullum , who the Hollywood Reporter called "a one man British Invastion", has revealed a series of USA tour dates to promote the U.S. release of his  The Pursuit album (due March 2, 2010 from Verve Records). The album is Cullums ...
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• The Gambling Tales Podcast Rocks

  
  Hard-Boiled Poker — Authority: 124
  The new Gambling Tales Podcast hosted by Special K and Falstaff is up to three episodes now. The pair is cranking them out once every two weeks, and so far they’ve created three enjoyable shows. Definitely worth adding to your queue of other poker/gambling podcasts, I’d say. One aspect we amateur ...
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• Uk - Thai Airways Baggage Strike Imminent

  
  TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum — Authority: 460
  Not really well publicised because of the BA salad dodgers and ladyboys cabin crew strike, but SAS Ground services have called a series of strikes at Heathrow starting Dec 22nd. Among the airlines for which they provide baggage services is Thai Airways. So if you are travelling in or out of London on these days you ...
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• Tales of Graces With 100% More Hatsune Miku

  
  Siliconera — Authority: 692
  Next week’s Tales of Graces downloadable content pack changes Sophie into Hatsune Miku. On the day before Christmas Eve, players can purchase the costume for 400 Wii Points ($4).
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• SISTERS, SISTERS...NEVER WERE THERE SUCH DEVOTED SISTERS...

  
  Paula's Palace of AltAred Art — Authority: 118
  Greetings, dear reader! Just a quick post to say, "I MISS MY SISTERS!" We ALWAYS have such fun together..."high hilarity" we always call it. Laugh til were sick...    Besides being ALWAYS up for an adventure...   They are both incredibly talented people...my ...
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• Gingerbread Houses Halfway Done

  
  ComicSpace Blog — Authority: 91
  After enduring famine, parental abandonment, forced labor, compelled gluttony, and the brutal death of their wicked captor, Hansel and Gretel made their way home, to the loving embrace of the parents who sent them out to die in the first place.  Now, all that remains is to restore that feel-good familial harmony… ...
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• Review: Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter Five – Rise of the Pirate God (PC)

  
  Diehard GameFAN — Authority: 143
  Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games/Lucasarts Genre: Adventure Release Date: 12/08/2009 The final chapter in this, the latest Monkey Island saga. We’ve reviewed the other chapters here , here , here and here . So how does this last ...
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• Octopus behaviour

  
  Compressed air junkie — Authority:
  Encountered and interesting article in the papers yesterday about an octopus species in Indonesia that uses coconut shells as protection (Octopus builds its own shelter, Straits Times, 16 Dec 2009), and saw other articles on it in the WildSingapore blog . I was amazed that such behaviour was considered “new”, as ...
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• Powerhouse v. Night Lord, Part Nine

  
  Laser & Sword Magazine — Authority: 417
  Continued from Part Eight Crouched in a roof access stairwell, Invisibility Master pressed a button on his suit and vanished from human sight. He threw open the door and ran onto the roof. At Powerhouse’s approach, Invisibility Master pulled out the rocket launcher and fired. Powerhouse dodged the rocket and flew ...
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• “Fractured Fables” coming in 2010

  
  THE BLARG — Authority: 431
  Next summer, Silverline Books will release the hardcover, kid-friendly anthology “Fractured Fables” nationwide. The anthology’s lineup is pretty fantastic, including all-new work from Bryan Talbot (“Alice in Sunderland”), Doug TenNapel (“Earthworm Jim”) and Ted McKeever (“Transit”), to name a few. ...
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• Annotated Classic Fairy Tales Collection

  
  techviva — Authority: 150
  The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales Collection is a collection of 80 classic fairy tales with all kinds of extras including contemporary references, character sources, and historical origins. The collection offers 2,000 pages of wonderful fairy tales including The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, and The Secret Garden, to name ...
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