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Review of 'Stylized' for Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' on their silver anniversary

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Back in 1959, half a century ago, a slim volume came out of the press of Macmillan, called The Elements of Style....
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Finds in the Valley of the Kings

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On a recent archeology blog (Archaeorama), Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s premier archeologist discusses a few finds in the Valley of the Kings. One...
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The origin of Halloween

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In archaic English, the name for the Christian holiday of November 1st was All Hallows Day or All Hallow Mass. It...
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Education 101: What is Ramadan?

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Among Muslims in the United States (and many other countries), there are two calendars, the secular one and the...
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September and the fall of apples

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Autumn is coming and with it, a new crop of apples. Readers who are interested in learning about the differences...
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Peace on earth, good will to...Punch?

In an old volume of bound magazines from 1864, there is an odd poem, entitled “Not a Bad Idea of King William.” The magazine is Punch,...
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Please and thank you in over 20 languages

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Today (August 18th) is supposed to be “Bad Poetry Day.” The worst poetry the Word Geek knows was written in response to something that the...
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Back to school with a camera

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As it’s now August, educators may be getting ready for school to start soon. Teachers wanting to decorate a classroom with patriotic posters may...
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The olden days

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I went to a wonderful museum in the picturesque, little town of Rio Vista, just north of the Sacramento River delta, where I took about a hundred...
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Walter Cronkite, the 'Voice of God' on TV news

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When Walter Cronkite was the number one anchor on CBS news, he tended to avoid this sort of melodramatic characterization. That was between 1950...
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