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• George Orwell’s birthplace in Bihar to be turned into a museum

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Local authorities in Motihari, Champaran district, are drawing plans to raise the colonial bungalow from its fallen state of disrepair to lure tourists.“The house is in a dilapidated condition. We have initiated the process of declaring Orwell’s house a protected monument,” The Telegraph quoted Vivek Singh, ...
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• George Orwell’s birthplace to become tourist attraction

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 528
  A dilapidated colonial bungalow where George Orwell was born is to be restored in a drive to lure tourists to one of India’s poorest states. read more
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• George Orwell’s Motihari house to be a protected site

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 447
  PATNA — The Bihar government has initiated the process to declare protected site the house at Motihari in East Champaran district where British author Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was born. “The house is in a dilapidated condition…We have initiated the process of declaring ...
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• Wrong Again, Rudyard

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 415
  The only familiar smell for South Africans in Avery Gilbert’s pungent potpourri of pongs What The Nose Knows (Crown, 2008) is a poem from Rudyard Kipling, the “prophet of British imperialism” (pace George Orwell). His poem Lichtenberg “memorialized the transporting power of scent” for an Australian trooper ...
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• Book to Book, Sharing is Caring

  
  Intellect or Insanity — Authority: 482
  Circumventing Amazon ’s Kindle Digital Restriction Management (DRM) earlier this week may be a small revolution and a new path into turning the human knowledge into something collective, distributional and more fair. The electronic readers, such as the Kindle, provide an alternative which is cheaper, efficient ...
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• Reid Is Stupid, Cunning, Deceitful, or Incompetent

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 532
  You be the judge. We told you about the provision which prohibits the repeal of certain sections of the healthcare bill. The impudent tyranny of Harry Reid Examiner Editorial December 23, 2009 The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled ...
  6 days ago

• I See What You Did There

  
  raincoaster — Authority: 422
  It was totally gross. Posted in Cthulhu, Culture, George Orwell, horror, humor, Humour, lol, meme, Weird
  6 days ago

• Author! Author! | Andrew Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  An astonishing anti-semitic outburst shows how distrust of strangers increases under stress This hasnt anything directly to do with religion, but it is an interesting anecdote about tribalism. First, a question: who wrote the following passage about life in London during the blitz? What I do feel is that any Jew, ...
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• Leadership Quotes and Core Values at our Institution of Higher Learning

  
  Kazakhnomad's Blog: A Westerner's View of Kazakhstan — Authority: 127
  The following are the Core Values that should be our trademark as a Western institution of higher learning in Kazakhstan, approved by the Board of Trustees at a Nov. 20, 2009 meeting. We value the well-being of our students, faculty, and staff. We encourage personal and professional development in an ...
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• Hows your moral compass?

  
  VIEWS FROM BAY RIDGE — Authority: 129
  President Barack Obama visits Spain next year ... and as part of his visit the Spanish socialist government, through  Sergi Centelles plans to give the president a photograph of a black man.  The photograph was taken by his father, Agustí Centellles in February of 1937 and is not a photograph of any ...
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• We’re a nation of happy peeping toms!

  
  PinoyBlogoSphere.com (PBS) — Authority: 457
  What’s with voyeurism and us Pinoys?For quite some time now, I’ve been hooked on Pinoy Big Brother Double Up. This season is the third regular season of PBB, aside from the Teen and Celebrity edition. Just a bit of a background: the Big Brother character is derived from George Orwell’s...  Source:   The ...
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• ClimateGates Winston Smith

  
  Joust The Facts — Authority: 118
  From George Orwells dystopian masterpiece: What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been...
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• America under Obamacare

  
  Grand Old Partisan — Authority: 451
  “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit...
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• The Tattlesnake – The Political Good, Bad and Ugly Edition

  
  BartBlog — Authority: 505
  Good: Your husband has decided to get more involved inlocal politics.Bad: He’s running for congress as a conservative Republican.Ugly: He’s Karl Rove.Good: Your wife just got a great-paying job.Bad: She’s on Fox News.Ugly: After fifteen years of marriage, you never knew she was a wingnut.Good: Your 22-year-old ...
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• Big Brother Is Watching, and He Is You and Me

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 550
  A young female student was banned from her college campus after some input on her Facebook page, found to not be all sweetness and light, concerning a former boyfriend.  While not that strange for some, the nature of the comment combined with her major might have been what sounded the alarm for the school. The story ...
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• George Orwell in Gibraltar

  
  Iberianature — Authority: 117
  I’m enjoying very much reading the newly published George Orwell Diaries, also available online here . In addition to politics and fascinating insights into the daily life of the late 1930s such as the price of eggs, there is a remarkable amount on natural history, clearly something Orwell found important and ...
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• Online Petition to Remove Kevin Jennings, “Safe Schools Czar”

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 165
  Dec. 16, 2009 Mass Resistance Update Pro-family activism “In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell Home Page Blog FIGHT BACK! Please DONATE 1. Resolution introduced in Congress to remove ...
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• Notes For December 15th, 2009

  
  The INTERNET WRITING WORKSHOP — Authority: 125
  This Day In History On December 15th, 1936, the legendary British writer George Orwell (the pseudonym of Eric Blair) delivered the completed manuscript for his famous non-fiction book, The Road To Wigan Pier (1937), before leaving for Spain to help fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. The Road To Wigan ...
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• Olympic Mural Rises Again

  
  raincoaster — Authority: 422
  Have you seen this mural? Not recently, you haven’t, because it was destroyed on the orders of Vancouver City Hall , which is apparently in the business of making sure the Olympic Committee don’t get their feelings hurt, rather than in the business of defending the rights of Canadians to the free expression ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obamas Confusion About the Origins of War

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  "War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease -- the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences." - From President Obamas Nobel Prize acceptance speech. ...
  2 weeks ago

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