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House of Memory and Imagination for lovers of European literature, history and culture.

[Laura Spinney @lfspinney]

A dragon stone or vishap in Yerevan. Such stones litter the Armenian highlands. Some think they represent animal sacrifices, pagan rituals that came from the steppe with the Armenian language. https://t.co/kc72cQ10Dw @WmCollinsBooks @BloomsburyPub #linguistics #archaeology

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Up by Michelle Bailat-Jones https://t.co/Hz9U8iLnl0 via @hippocampusmag

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At #Anatha we seek to create a positive feedback loop with users that will be good for the ecosystem while also combating poverty.

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Read this incredible article that goes into the importance of building new systems rather than relying on the current inoperative one by our Communications Director, Daniel Coffeen.
https://t.co/r44GaCxqsk

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How Decentralization Can Create the Information Resource Economy by @DCoffeen https://t.co/HKFX55Q2kk

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Our next project, coming very soon.

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Today I could resist no longer - I looked it up - it means bookbinder! How good is that!

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#wordoftheday I don't even want to know what it really means. https://t.co/x7aEfLdCSi

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And that’s what is beautiful! Bovard said, holding on as best he could, being among the strongest among them (because the poet has come).

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He looked first at the hillside, then he looked at the water. “Ah! so now, it’s you… Alright then, respect for you too…”
And to show his respect, he took of his hat.

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He saw it, casting a glance to the right and to the left, and he said to himself, “It that it?” Then he replied to himself, “That’s it.” CF Ramuz

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@HarrisonSolow So sorry to hear of your incomparable loss. Such sadness.

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We moved to Moscow, after the death of my father, for a simple reason: our estate was sold under the hammer for debt — everything, with the exception of one wretched little hamlet, the very one in which I am now finishing my magnificent existence. https://t.co/VAKMafnn6q

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Finished listening to Pale Rider by Laura Spinney. Try #Audible and get it free: https://t.co/XfzSuY1tsN

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And the scientists and philosophers and hangmen would retreat, speaking with a shudder: “Do not touch this place. It is holy.” https://t.co/vgBt3KxEgG

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There are children who are ghosts. They carry within themselves the memory of another world — a world beyond the forests, beyond the streams. They have bathed their bodies and their hair in the enchanted spring. That ecstasy has never left their eyes
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“You hear that, you men from Sion, you gentlemen of the law, you gendarmes?…”
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An estimated 50 to 100 million people died during the 1918 flu pandemic—possibly more than both World Wars combined. So... why is the memory of the Spanish flu so flimsy?

@lfspinney explores how collective memory forms in the aftermath of pandemics: https://t.co/I7yI4w6eyJ

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A letter to the UK from Italy: this is what we know about your future https://t.co/xzn4wSsB7V

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