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'Blondie looks like a regular penguin, except where he should be black, he’s bleached blond…. Blackie is a little different. Where she should be white, she is jet black—in fact, she is entirely black, beak to tail.'
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“I spent the first 17 years of my life dirt-poor,” said Cassano, who was raised by a single mother in one of the most crime-ridden neighbourhoods in Italy and said he is certain that had it not been for football, he would have become a hoodlum. “Then I spent nine years living the life of a millionaire. That means I need another eight years living the way I do now and then I’ll be even.”
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'On Boxing Day 1789, Franklin wrote to Webster in Hartford, returning the compliment: 'It is an excellent work, and will be greatly useful in turning the thoughts of our countrymen to correct writing.' He shared and appreciated his friend's prescriptivist distaste for vulgar idiom, and wanted to contribute further follies to a future edition of the work.'
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A great slideshow of beach gymnastics photos from 1930s Sydney. Via Metafilter.
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C17th cross-sections of plants
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'If his advocates didn't keep praising him as "a public intellectual" I wouldn't be rude enough to point it out, but Charles Windsor is a strikingly stupid man. Every time he has been put into a competitive situation where he is judged according to objective criteria, he has been a disaster.'
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Entries for a competition where people had to pick photos from the Magnum archives and pair them with a famous painting. One or two rather obvious choices but some very good ones too.