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Archive | June, 2013

Absolute misery: Charles Dickens meets The Smiths

The BBC Horrible Histories children’s TV show does Charles Dickens in style of The Smiths. Very funny. Surely, this gag is for the parents?

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Thousands of books falling over

The Seattle Public Library is one of the great modern libraries. Take a look at its world record attempt at a book domino chain. And while we are talking about dominoes, take a look at this lovely book from 1913 that describes everything you need to know about playing the game.

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