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Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
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In 1843, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend after seeing her first daguerreotype: “The very shadow of the person lying there fixed for ever! … I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced.”
Our lives and homes are filled with things that once inspired similar awe. I tried to collect those feelings, in quotes like the one above, from people for whom what is now ordinary was brand new. A friar who met the inventor of eyeglasses, a founding father on the new smallpox vaccine, a woman in Iowa on her family’s first indoor bathroom. To look at a modern apartment through their eyes: ordinaryabundance.com
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I am hopeful that Minneapolis voters will reelect @Jacob_Frey next week.
I'd like to share why — as someone who did not like him when he first came into public life, but has come to respect and admire his leadership. 🧵
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women in PHLEGM (poetry, history, language, english literature, ghost stories, music)
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Gemstones premiere was incredible and yes, cinematic as everyone is saying, but more than anything...it gets TV. Brilliant and poetic one-off but it does further along the show's themes and also builds out the history and does it all in like an hour. McBride and Hill get TV
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Large amounts of ketamine can make anyone feel like they rule the world. When should Americans start worrying about Elon Musk’s regular use? @shayla__love reports: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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“The Prisoner,” a British show about an intelligence agent who wakes up in a seemingly idyllic town, is the “perfect low-stakes, high-octane episodic mystery,” @shayla__love writes in The Atlantic Daily. theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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Addressing another person by their name can help build rapport. So why does it feel so awkward to say the names of the people we love best? @shayla__love investigates: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Amazing David Lynch tidbit from the actress who played the jump-scare monster in Mulholland Drive.
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In 2025 the World Premiere of THE WORLD WE SHARE #TWWS will take place on 3 continents, linking young people from around the world in a piece about global environmental concerns. @dycireland @RSNO @sfgirlschorus @GondwanaChoirs @sboke
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I’ve often said to myself “this Delta experience has been great, but you know what would improve it? Spending four hours trapped beside a grown man sobbing into his 3rd mini Buffalo Trace because he gambled away all of his wife’s SkyMiles over the course of a connecting flight.”
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Becoming aware of your invisible habits can help you live a life dictated more by what you enjoy—and less by what you’re used to, @shayla__love writes: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Trapped in a time loop, space traveler Egon Tichy faces his own worst enemy: himself. And he’s multiplying. In this inventive fusion of live performance and digital sleight-of-hand, a single performer builds a cinematic sci-fi comedy in real time. @utrfest instagram.com/p/DCFbCDovhEn/…
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Read our story. It's been a blast to report.
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