Lists of Note

History's most interesting lists, edited by @shaunusher. Each Sunday, a new (old) list.

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In her final months, desperately ill at the Gurdjieff Institute, Katherine Mansfield kept a list of words and phrases to be translated into Russian: https://t.co/HuHIFugmjH

[Dr Isabella Rosner @IsabellaRosner]

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):

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"For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery."

The many reasons why Christopher Smart loved his cat: https://t.co/SXyQgD4x4T

[Tom Rachman @TomRachman]

7 names rejected for Disney’s “7 Dwarfs” (I’m not joking):
*Biggo-Ego
*Chesty
*Flabby
*Gaspy
*Goopy
*Jaunty
*Strutty
h/t the excellent @ListsOfNote book

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The (Oddest) Occupations of the English People in 1881: https://t.co/DBnZDEwNBa

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"Turn off that fucking cell phone—you can have no idea how unimportant your call is to us."

The New Commandments, according to Christopher Hitchens: https://t.co/2Dl555RzOn

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"You will stop talking to me if I request it."

Einstein's list of demands, to be followed by his first wife: https://t.co/dMFhXhG43r

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A Catalogue of the Rarities, to be Seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-house: In Chelsea https://t.co/KKHC3aHXTq

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@george_ed_44 But there is a transcript beneath the image.

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"Splatte that pyke"

A magnificent list of cooking terms from 1508: https://t.co/FFsacYkXru

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@eastdeflection @AlexiLalas 1. They're good lists.
2. "just"?
3. It's also a book: https://t.co/hLukZJxqjd

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In 1865, following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, poet Walt Whitman wrote an elegy to mark the US President's death. He began by drawing up a list of words related to such loss: https://t.co/61Lpsq7vus

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“I sleep with only one eye closed; I sleep very hard. My bed is round with a hole in it for my head to go through. Every hour a servant takes my temperature and gives me another.”

Erik Satie’s daily schedule: https://t.co/YK0xB9lm8m

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Woody Guthrie's New Year's Rulin's: https://t.co/9GQLYkxljD

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In 1927, at the height of Prohibition, Edmund Wilson compiled and published a list of terms for drunkenness: https://t.co/yCvCh8TXft

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‘If you have a bad voice, rather speak in a low tone.’

A list of advice for young ladies, published in 1830: https://t.co/n0Qaq2pIii

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"RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING 'BEEP-BEEP!'"

Chuck Jones' 9 Golden Rules: https://t.co/KKlAewETw2

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As printed in 1967, the Loves and Hates of Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 80 today: https://t.co/oRfzoYb3gd

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“NO ONE, not even our Parents, may keep us from one another.”

Noël Coward and Esmé Wynne's “Rules of Palship” https://t.co/wSHLWa5Am2

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In 1960, playwright Lorraine Hansberry wrote a list of things she liked, and a list of things she hated: https://t.co/nBDyVViL55