Tag Archives: Benjamin Franklin

  1. Dynamic Tension, Mewing, and Cognitive Dissonance

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    July 24, 2025 by libroshombre

    According to wise, old Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard once said, “Beauty and folly are old companions,” and several examples leap …
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    Category: dentists and denstistry, fitness, ignorance, stupidity | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  2. Thumbs, Maxims, and Regret

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Doctors say that our thumb is our master-finger and that our French word for it, ‘pouce,’ derives from the Latin …
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    Category: essay, illness, pandemic, plague, translation, vaccination, writers, writing | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Admiral Wrangell, Word-Lists, and Venery

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    August 24, 2015 by libroshombre

    Fishing in Alaska with Outside college buddies can be challenging for librarians, whom many people believe contain all knowledge when …
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    Category: dictionaries, placenames, words | Tags: , , , , , ,

  4. Tourists, Mistresses, and the People’s University

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    August 17, 2015 by libroshombre

    Outside friends visiting must be one of the greatest aspects of life in Alaska. That’s when many of us finally …
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    Category: censorship, college education, quotations | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

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