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On 17 November 1558 England’s first Queen, Mary I died. She is best known for her aggressive attempt to reverse the English Reformation. During her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at …

I don't generally use the word, "Hate," much as it can be overutilized and lose its impact. I save it to truly express how I loathe and despise something. That said, I loathe the Paul …

Finished reading: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera 📚 I love Adriana Herrera’s Las Leonas series so much. This is a very hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Paris, Scotland, an awesome woman running a business and …

Welcome to my 183rd gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1. Factor TreesI love the recent MathsPad updates. They've added a factor trees tool …

I’ve been a self-published author for over a decade now, but I’ve only been particularly serious about it since 2022. By “serious” I don’t mean “making nontrivial revenue,” but I do mean I’m making an …

Join me in person on Sunday 23 April, 3-4pm in The Round George’s function room, 14-15 Sutherland Avenue, Brighton, BN2 0EQ. You will have an opportunity to ASK ME ANYTHING! about the project. And together …

Beinn a’ Ghlò above the clouds. One of my long standing beliefs, and repeated to the point of tedium, is that you cannot see the hill you are standing on, so to have the grandest …

March 3, 2024, 9:43 PM EST on the video game forum GameFAQs, a user by the ID Xclaim created a thread with the following assertion as the title, “Barret deserves proper beachwear.” Barret, from the …

Dear friends, psychogeographers and comrades in loitering Its First Sunday, this Sunday and time for a wander, but in the meantime Merry Gothmas, Samhain Greetings and Happy Hallowe’en to those of you who celebrate one …

By Tess Little. This is an extract from Writing the Murder (Dead Ink Books, 2024) edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst: IT BLEEDS You are invited to open a door. Behind this door, …

SEGURA, Alain. Une saison avec Marianne: la dernière surréaliste. Bassac: Plein chant (coll. « La font secrète »), 2022 SEGURA, Alain. A Season with Marianne: The Last Surrealist. Trans. Bill Brown. Brooklyn: Common Notions, Dec. …

Hakobune‘s guitar is processed like one hundred Guthries, ringing with reverb abandon as chords stretch into warm, elongated vibrations. The 2019 album Rain Studies is a full-spectrum affair; it alternately plays and washes away intruding …

Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my …

I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be. By “just” I mean Thursday week ago. I am recovering well, thank you, though it did knock me for …

As autumn leaves littered the increasingly wintry ground it was, in days gone by, the signal for newspapers to trumpet the latest freak of nature emerging from the local barnyards. Cincinnati editors gleefully pounced on …