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  1. Cockroaches, Melting Hearts, and Mark Twain’s Library

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

    Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of words …
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  2. Oldest Languages, Harmful Tablets, and Cryptomnesia

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    March 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                Robert Louis Stevenson might have been right when he claimed that “Language is but a poor bull’s eye lantern …
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  3. Tea, Twain, and Tomes

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    March 30, 2020 by libroshombre

    One’s personal collection of books, or lack thereof, is often interesting, hence my curiosity about other people’s libraries.  Perhaps a …
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  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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  5. Bo Diddley on Life and Mark Twain on Grammar

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    January 2, 2014 by libroshombre

    Wise researchers know to always take the source of new information into account before accepting their advice. Take Ellas Otha …
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