Category: literature
Atlantis – the lost city
Atlantis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the […]
05/27/2013. Category: literature. Tags: kings, myth
Pen is mightier than the sword
English novelist and dramatist Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) uttered the wise words “The pen is mightier than the sword” in […]
05/31/2012. Category: literature. Tags: newspapers, philosophy
Does This Language Make Me Look Fat?
One of the first things Regiina Nohova had to learn when she moved to the Czech Republic was how to open her […]
04/04/2012. Category: literature. Tags: language
Numbers as letters
You are most likely familiar with numbers being used to implicate letters, phrases or even symbols. In SMS (txting) shortcuts, for instance, […]
01/30/2012. Category: literature. Tags: leet, numbers, textese
The dictionary writers
Samuel Johnson completed the first English dictionary in 1755. Apparently Johnson was known for his drinking. On the other hand, Noah Webster, […]
07/06/2011. Category: literature. Tags: writing
First travel book
Tourism is a $4 trillion-a-year industry, affecting more than 200 million jobs, or 1 in 10 workers. But tourism actually is an […]
05/12/2011. Category: literature. Tags: travel
Oedipus and the sphinx riddle
The head of ancient Egyptian sphinxes portrayed the reigning pharaoh but also, when featuring the head of a falcon, represented the sky-god […]
10/29/2010. Category: literature. Tags: oedipus, riddles, sphinx
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt […]
10/21/2010. Category: literature. Tags: research
World’s largest encyclopedia
The word encyclopedia comes from two Greek words meaning “a circle of learning.” The oldest known encyclopedia was written in Greece about […]
09/29/2010. Category: literature. Tags: encyclopedia
True story of Gulliver’s Travels
When Jonathan Swift published Gulliver’s Travels in 1726 he intended it as a satire on the ferociousness of human nature. Instead, today […]
08/30/2010. Category: literature. Tags: gulliver, jonathan swift