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Secret Book Landscapes, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
September 5, 2013
On the Shelf
These
miniature landscapes
, painted on the sides of nineteenth-century books, were recently discovered at the University of Iowa.
Jokes
(of varying degrees of hilarity) for grammar nerds.
Adding to the indignity of Richard III’s parking-lot exhumation,
scientists have now discovered
that the monarch had worms. “Thy broken faith hath made the prey for worms,” wrote Shakespeare, calling it.
Speaking of cross-pond exhumation! “Exhuming Poirot is disrespectful towards Agatha Christie’s careful burial,”
argues John Sutherland
in the
Guardian
.
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