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[?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
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MORGLAG. A brown bill, or kind of halbert, formerly carried by watchmen; corruption of MORE, great or broad, and GLAVE, blade.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): MORGLAG. A brown bill, or kind of halbert, formerly carried by watchmen; corruption of MORE, great or broad, and GLAVE, blade. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): MORGLAG. A brown bill, or kind of halbert, formerly carried by watchmen; corruption of MORE, great or broad, and GLAVE, blade. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

    [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
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    In Defense of Difficult Reading

    The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention

    theamericanscholar.org/in-defe

    Bookshelves with books in a library. There are four bookshelves facing each other with four shelves in each. A gray carpet is in between them and lights hang over each bookshelf and over the carpet. Another bookshelf is in the distance facing the viewer.

    Alt...Bookshelves with books in a library. There are four bookshelves facing each other with four shelves in each. A gray carpet is in between them and lights hang over each bookshelf and over the carpet. Another bookshelf is in the distance facing the viewer.

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      Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy Is Loaded With Good and Bad, but His Work to Even the Economic Playing Field Is Often Overlooked

      He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending WWI and strove to improve the plight of American workers. Today, his blind spots shroud most of his accomplishments

      by Richard Norton Smith

      smithsonianmag.com/history/woo

      Books by Woodrow Wilson at PG:
      gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/16

      Wilson as New Jersey governor in 1911. A formal portrait as Governor of New Jersey, seated at his desk holding papers, before a wall of law books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#/media/File:Woodrow_Wilson,_New_Jersey_Governor_-_1911.jpg

      Alt...Wilson as New Jersey governor in 1911. A formal portrait as Governor of New Jersey, seated at his desk holding papers, before a wall of law books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#/media/File:Woodrow_Wilson,_New_Jersey_Governor_-_1911.jpg

        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
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        DUCE. Two-pence.

        A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DUCE. Two-pence. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DUCE. Two-pence. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

          [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
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          AUNT. Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, &c. for the dells. CANT. See DELLS.

          A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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          @histodons

          Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): AUNT. Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, &c. for the dells. CANT. See DELLS. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

          Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): AUNT. Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, &c. for the dells. CANT. See DELLS. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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            A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield

            “Even in Mansfield stories where children are not centered or present, this is their world. Her adults never quite grow up, only older.”

            lithub.com/a-childs-world-sloa

            Mansfield at PG:

            gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631

            A photograph of Katherine Mansfield from 1912 which shows her from the waist up. She is looking directly into the camera. She has dark, chin-length hair styled in a bob with short bangs across her forehead. She is wearing a dark jacket or vest over a light-colored blouse with a large, pointed collar. A small, crumpled white cloth or handkerchief peeks out of her breast pocket. A thin, simple chain necklace is around her neck.

            Alt...A photograph of Katherine Mansfield from 1912 which shows her from the waist up. She is looking directly into the camera. She has dark, chin-length hair styled in a bob with short bangs across her forehead. She is wearing a dark jacket or vest over a light-colored blouse with a large, pointed collar. A small, crumpled white cloth or handkerchief peeks out of her breast pocket. A thin, simple chain necklace is around her neck.

              [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
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              HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red.

              A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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              @histodons

              Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

              Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
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                ROUND ROBIN. A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names are written in a circle, so that it cannot be discovered who first signed it, or was, in other words, the ringleader.

                A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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                @histodons

                Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): ROUND ROBIN. A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names are written in a circle, so that it cannot be discovered who first signed it, or was, in other words, the ringleader. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): ROUND ROBIN. A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names are written in a circle, so that it cannot be discovered who first signed it, or was, in other words, the ringleader. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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                  [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
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                  in 1752 Frances Burney was born. She "was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In all, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty-five volumes of journals and letters. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray."

                  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_

                  Burney at PG:

                  gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/20

                  Painting of Frances Burney by her cousin Edward Francis Burney. She is shown from the waist up. She has light brown hair which is covered by a huge puffy tan hat. It has a big bow and ruffled lace on top. Her dress is white with a pink bow at her chest. A dark black shawl covers her shoulders and arms, and she wear dark gloves.

                  Alt...Painting of Frances Burney by her cousin Edward Francis Burney. She is shown from the waist up. She has light brown hair which is covered by a huge puffy tan hat. It has a big bow and ruffled lace on top. Her dress is white with a pink bow at her chest. A dark black shawl covers her shoulders and arms, and she wear dark gloves.

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                    After the Concept of Peaceful Disobedience Was Established in America, It Traveled Around the World Before Taking Hold

                    “Force may subdue, but love gains”: The Quaker practice of conscientious objection evolved through Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi before becoming the hallmark of the Civil Rights movement

                    by Jeff MacGregor

                    smithsonianmag.com/history/con

                    Books by William Penn and Henry David Thoreau. at PG:
                    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/86
                    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54

                    William Penn. A formal engraved oval portrait of William Penn — Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, depicted in his characteristic broad-brimmed Quaker hat, curled wig, and plain dark coat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn#/media/File:William_Penn.png

                    Alt...William Penn. A formal engraved oval portrait of William Penn — Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, depicted in his characteristic broad-brimmed Quaker hat, curled wig, and plain dark coat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn#/media/File:William_Penn.png

                      [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
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                      DELLS. Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery, but who have not lost their virginity, which the UPRIGHT MAN claims by virtue of his prerogative; after which they become free for any of the fraternity. Also a common strumpet. CANT.

                      A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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                      @histodons

                      Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DELLS. Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery, but who have not lost their virginity, which the UPRIGHT MAN claims by virtue of his prerogative; after which they become free for any of the fraternity. Also a common strumpet. CANT. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                      Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DELLS. Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery, but who have not lost their virginity, which the UPRIGHT MAN claims by virtue of his prerogative; after which they become free for any of the fraternity. Also a common strumpet. CANT. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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                        [?]Megan Lynch (she/her) » 🌐
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                        Once Upon a Time in Harlem - Official Teaser Trailer - In Select Theaters October 16

                        youtube.com/watch?v=zIjmgj5rbOY

                          [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
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                          Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

                          The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster

                          lithub.com/andrea-wulf-conside

                          Books by Georg Forster at PG:
                          gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

                          Christmas Sound, Terra del Fuego. The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage. by James Cook and Georg Forster A sepia-toned landscape illustration showing a calm fjord dotted with rocky islets, snow-capped mountains in the distance, and a small sailing ship on the water. In the foreground, two seabirds perch on rugged cliffs to the right, under a pale, hazy sky. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61492/pg61492-images.html

                          Alt...Christmas Sound, Terra del Fuego. The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage. by James Cook and Georg Forster A sepia-toned landscape illustration showing a calm fjord dotted with rocky islets, snow-capped mountains in the distance, and a small sailing ship on the water. In the foreground, two seabirds perch on rugged cliffs to the right, under a pale, hazy sky. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61492/pg61492-images.html

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                            No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters?

                            Peter Pan, Christopher Robin and Alice in Wonderland … being the star of a classic story might seem like a dream, but there’s a dark side, argues the author of The Children

                            by Melissa Albert

                            theguardian.com/books/2026/jun

                            Books in Children's Fiction at PG:
                            gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf

                            Cover of 1915 edition of J. M. Barrie's novel, first published in 1911, illustrated by F. D. Bedford A black-and-white illustrated book cover showing Peter Pan standing triumphantly in a circular vignette with a ship at sea behind him. Below, a pirate (left) and a Native American figure (right) flank the central image. Title and author J.M. Barrie printed above and below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(character)#/media/File:Peter_Pan_1915_cover.jpg

                            Alt...Cover of 1915 edition of J. M. Barrie's novel, first published in 1911, illustrated by F. D. Bedford A black-and-white illustrated book cover showing Peter Pan standing triumphantly in a circular vignette with a ship at sea behind him. Below, a pirate (left) and a Native American figure (right) flank the central image. Title and author J.M. Barrie printed above and below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(character)#/media/File:Peter_Pan_1915_cover.jpg

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                              Born in 1810, Margaret Fuller Was Labeled a Child Prodigy. She Later Used Her Intellect to Ask Important Questions About Women’s Role in America

                              Her writing posed the novel premise: What does it mean to be a woman? Her early death meant she never saw the movement she inspired

                              by Megan Marshall

                              smithsonianmag.com/history/bor

                              Books by Margaret Fuller at PG:
                              gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28

                              Detail of the only known daguerreotype of Fuller (1846). A black-and-white sixth-plate daguerreotype portrait of a woman seated in profile, eyes downcast, resting her head on one raised hand. She wears a white fringed shawl over dark clothing, with braided hair. A decorative box rests beside her. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Fuller_by_John_Plumbe,_Jr.,_1846,_sixth-plate_daguerreotype,_from_the_National_Portrait_Gallery_-_NPG-B8000006C_1_(2).jpg

                              Alt...Detail of the only known daguerreotype of Fuller (1846). A black-and-white sixth-plate daguerreotype portrait of a woman seated in profile, eyes downcast, resting her head on one raised hand. She wears a white fringed shawl over dark clothing, with braided hair. A decorative box rests beside her. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Fuller_by_John_Plumbe,_Jr.,_1846,_sixth-plate_daguerreotype,_from_the_National_Portrait_Gallery_-_NPG-B8000006C_1_(2).jpg

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                                Eight Overlooked Characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books

                                Everyone loves the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, but what about these weird and wonderful creations?

                                By Kelly Robinson

                                reactormag.com/eight-overlooke

                                Books by Lewis Carroll at PG:
                                gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7

                                CONSEILS D’UNE CHENILLE. A large caterpillar sits atop a wide mushroom smoking a hookah, while a small Alice peeks over the mushroom's edge. Grass, leaves, and smaller mushrooms surround the scene. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55456/images/x-page-60.jpg Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles by Lewis Carroll, Illustratated by John Tenniel, Translated by Henri Bué https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55456/pg55456-images.html

                                Alt...CONSEILS D’UNE CHENILLE. A large caterpillar sits atop a wide mushroom smoking a hookah, while a small Alice peeks over the mushroom's edge. Grass, leaves, and smaller mushrooms surround the scene. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55456/images/x-page-60.jpg Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles by Lewis Carroll, Illustratated by John Tenniel, Translated by Henri Bué https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55456/pg55456-images.html

                                  [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
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                                  NUMMS. A sham collar, to be worn over a dirty shirt.

                                  A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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                                  Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): NUMMS. A sham collar, to be worn over a dirty shirt. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                  Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): NUMMS. A sham collar, to be worn over a dirty shirt. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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                                    [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
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                                    “I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

                                    —Iain Banks died , 9 June, 2013

                                    theguardian.com/books/2013/jun

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                                      [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                                      https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/pdf/index.html

                                      Ygdrasil is the first online literary journal, first published in 1993.

                                      You might find the editor on Facebook and at Academia.edu.


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