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“A Massive Crowdsourcing Project Is Digitizing Thousands of Coded Union Telegrams, and Unearthing Astonishing ‘Emails'” → Archiving the Civil War’s Text Messages. There’s more in Slate, including an example of a coded and decoded message. [Thanks, Reader C.!]
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Last summer we shared a bit about the Lituya Bay Megatsunami. Now, via Reader B., comes Damn Interesting‘s fantastic story about that terrifying event.
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ListiClock tells time using “a BuzzFeed list for every second of every day.” Speaking of lists (and when aren’t I?), here’s a useful Wikipedia List of common false etymologies of English words. And a not-so-useful List of animals with fraudulent diplomas.
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Jealousy, a fake love letter and a cursing acrostic that fooled the boring biographer…this little gem of a story has it all.
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Novelist Mauro Javier Cardenas chooses 9 Novels with Really Long Sentences…and not (only) the usual suspects! I imagine you Clamorites could come up with more… [Thanks, Reader B. and Maybe-a-Reader M.]
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Katexic favorite Marian Call is touring the west coast (of the US). If you can’t make one of those dates, you can always listen to (and purchase) her music on Bandcamp. Bonus: Marian talks a bit about—and performs a few songs with—her typewriter “Madeleine” (named after Madeleine L’Engle).
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Courtesy of auto complete, play Google Feud.
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I can already hear the cries of “but it’s not art!” → Amalia Ulman—The First Great Instagram Artist Lives Many Fake Lives
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Today in 1897, poet and Robert Frost Medal award winner (his feud with Frost notwithstanding) Wallace Stevens is born in Reading, Pennsylvania. A Harvard graduate, Stevens spent most of his life working as an insurance company executive and composing, mostly late in life, the poems that would establish him as one of America’s greatest (and poorly imitated) poets and the bane of high school students everywhere, banging their heads against their thick literary anthologies, tormented by visions of jars, blackbirds, ►ice cream and ►the nothing that is.