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Onion News Network: Traveling Group of Medieval Mummers Is America's Top Pick for Holiday Entertainment
A long-lost medieval cookbook, containing recipes for hedgehogs, blackbirds and even unicorns, has been discovered at the British Library. Professor Brian Trump of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the find as near-miraculous. "We've been hunting for this book for years.
Unicorn Cookbook Found at the British Library - Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts
A recent article in The Guardian brought attention to Urban Dictionary entries that redefine the giants of literature through contemporary slang. They range from the stupid (JK Rowling: being under the effects of cannabis (J) and ketamine (K)), to the sublime (Kerouac: to wander aimlessly for the giddy thrill).
The Art World Redefined Through Contemporary Slang
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Fun With Words: Collective Nouns
One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing there is a group of: a herd of elephants, a crowd of people, a box of crayons, a pad of paper, etc. There is great diversity of collective nouns associated with animals, from a sleuth of bears to a murder of crows. The following is a list of the correct terms to describe groups of various types of animals.The 56 best/worst similes « House of Figs
Borrowed from this blog . Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.