The Hotel des Indes, Batavia, during WWII. A white hotel on a tropical island, in a time of war. Does that remind you of anything?* _____ By Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures, CC BY-SA 3.0.On this day in 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army captured Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East […]
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Western Australian beaches look nothing like this. The beaches I grew up beside were also full of salt bushes and sandy loam, stunted, windblown shrubs and salt. But they weren’t pretty and manicured–not at all. I only have the one photo here, but you should check out all the other photos you can find in
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We waited very patiently for the end of the first season of Star Trek Discovery. (On Crave TV for Canadians.) Not because we thought it would be so good we’d want to gobble the whole season in one huge binge session, but because it’s a habit we’ve built over the years. So glad we did that.
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Sorry about the click-bait headline. I usually don’t resort to them but in this case it’s absolutely justified and I promise to deliver. In full. We’re always weeks behind the rest of the world in our TV viewing. So it has taken us a while to get around to watching Planet Earth II by the BBC,
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We’re all used to seeing typos and grammar mistakes in published work. Although, we tend to trust dictionaries completely. They’re the ultimate authority for publishers, authors, and Scrabble players. Yet, even Websters has been known to oops. On this day in 1939, it was discovered that the Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition, did have
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Actually, it wasn’t just one email. I’ve been getting a lot. They go, more or less: I love, love, love the Kiss Across Time series. I just got to the end of Kiss Across Worlds, and read about there being no more for the foreseeable future. Say it isn’t so! I want more. Pleeeeeeeeaaaaase…? I know how
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Tulip Field in Netherlands Image credits: Allard Schager Tulips are not my favourite flowers. I prefer old style roses and peonies. They seem prettier to me. But I am a sucker for colour, so this image is mindblowing. This entire field is made up of small flowers. It’s a silent statement of the size of
I love cracking open a new program and getting to know it. Playing around with the buttons and menus and figuring out how to get the program to do what I want is enormous fun. It scratches my curiousity bump and taps my creativity in completely different ways from story-telling. Most people I know can
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