"I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth." Letters of Jane Austen Happy birthday Jane Austen, born #OTD 250 years ago!! At PG:

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Guillaume Apollinaire’s Trailblazing Caligrams, 1913 The form is part of the message in French writer Guillaume Apollinaire's "caligrams", in which the shape of the words on the page creates meaning. by Paul Sorene

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The form is part of the message in Guillaume Apollinaire's "caligrams", in which the shape of the words on the page creates meaning.

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Calligrammes: Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre (1913-1916) by Apollinaire

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An Industrious Grocer in the 1930s Wanted to Make It Easier for His Customers to Buy More. They Just Needed a Push "There was a time when shoppers could buy only as much as they could carry. And as ubiquitous as shopping carts are today, it initially took some convincing to use them" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/industrious-grocer-1930s-wanted-make-easier-customers-buy-more-just-needed-push-180987633/ #history

1066 and still all that Few humor books from 1930 still get laughs from many people now, but 1066 and All That does. W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman don't just send up English history: they also satirize how history is often taught and remembered, where what really matters, whether Bad Kings or Good Things, is the story of whoever's on top. By John Mark Ockerbloom

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1066 and still all that

Few humor books from 1930 still get laughs from many people now, but 1066 and All That does. W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman don’t just send u...

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In Praise of E. H. Shepard’s Illustrations What makes Pooh Pooh? The answer lies not only in author A.A. Milne’s prose, but also in the quiet genius of E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations. With Shepard’s work now in the public domain, it’s the perfect opportunity to revisit how these deceptively simple drawings became cultural touchstones. by Sterling Dudley

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Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

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Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library The Morgan Library in New York pays tribute to its first director, who navigated a racist society and went on to lead the cultural institution for over two decades by Use Lahoz

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Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses is all about mothers Mothers don’t normally belong in Latin epics, which were meant to be devoted to warriors and warfare. by Frances Myatt

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Mothers don’t normally belong in Latin epics, which were meant to be devoted to warriors and warfare.

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I think I can In 24 days, we can finally reuse a more familiar version of The Little Engine That Could, as retold by Watty Piper and illustrated by Lois Lenski. By John Mark Ockerbloom

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Aaron Moss’s roundup of arrivals to the public domain in 2026 lists over 150 works newly out of copyright, and discusses how we can’t a...

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Who ordered this timeline? There’s the 1980 we know from memory and history, and there’s the 1980 of Just Imagine, where people have names like “J-21”, need permits to marry, and travel in both dirigibles and Mars rockets. By John Mark Ockerbloom

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