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Is Nothing Sacred? The Brontë Chapel Is Sacked
By
Sadie Stein
October 25, 2012
On the Shelf
The
Brontë Bell Chapel
, the seventeenth-century West Yorkshire church in which the literary sisters were baptized, has been looted by stone thieves. The crooks took the stones from the tops of graves, as well as from the walls of the building.
Scholars at Oxford University may be on the brink of cracking
the world’s oldest undeciphered writing system
, a series of Bronze Age texts (in the original sense of the word).
“I think it’s time for us to advocate for poetry!” Matthew Dickman’s
call to arms
.
Here is
a storyboard for
The Secret History
.
Oh, and while we’re at it, here is a
Hobbit
-themed menu,
coming to Denny’s
November 6. “Start off your First Breakfast—or Second Breakfast—with six bite-size round red velvet Pancake Puppies made with white chocolate chips and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Served with a side of cream cheese icing for dipping.”
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