Snow Artist Simon Beck Tells Us About His Cool New Art Form & Life At Millfield School
For over a decade he has been walking in snowshoes to draw incredible geometric images on the pure white snow of the Alps. And the rest is as they say mathematics......
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12 Things You Didn’t Know About Author Margaret Atwood
In the oppressive public heat of Margaret Atwood’s much awaited new book The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Nikki Wordsmith compiles a quick list of 12 things you didn’t know about her......
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Hunter S. Thompson’s Prescient 9/11 Column Still Holds True Today
When the self-invented gonzo and sports journalist's career was allegedly in a terminal nose dive he wrote this piece for his Hey Rube column in the couple of days after the planes hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, because as he says 'even ESPN were broadcasting war news'....
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Common, Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
A 1996 poem by Nikki Wordsmith that demonstrates her prowess on how to use common, comparative and superlative adjectives. Sort of.
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Ever Wondered How George Clymer’s Columbian Letterpress Worked?
A Guest Blog by Mike Haigh, Printroom Custodian at the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, Yorkshire, tells us how. The Columbian Letterpress Double Demi Revealed This hand printing press was invented by George Clymer, an engineer from Philadelphia, USA, in 1813. The design was the first all metal lever...
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