• Galateo : Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners
  Giovanni della Casa (1555), tr. Richard Graves (1774)
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• Has artificial intelligence cracked the Voynich Manuscript’s mysterious code?
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• How snake oil became a symbol of fraud and deception
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• How the idea of a ‘normal’ person got invented
  "The notion that there is a 'normal' height or a 'normal' salary is a relatively new one, and it's had a profound effect on how people think about each other and themselves." (Plus Adolphe Quetelet and 5,738 Scottish soldiers.)
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• How the quintessential villain's melody snuck into the popular consciousness
  "...the Mysterioso Pizzicato is a musical go-to for sneaky situations, forever associated with thieves, creeps, stalkers and spies." (dum-dum-dum-dum-daaaaaaaa-dum-dum-dum-dum)
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• International DOI Foundation
  "...DOIs identify objects persistently. They allow things to be uniquely identified and accessed reliably." Includes DOI look-up
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• Kiltie, kiltie cauld bum
  The history of Highland dress.
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• Little Gems
  "This site is dedicated to the Little Gems of children's television programs that have long faded into memory such as Moondial, Into the Labyrinth, The Herbs, Cockleshell Bay, Alias the Jester, Belle and Sebastien, Murun Buchstansangur, The Singing Ringing Tree, Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (as shown on Captain Kangaroo) and Portland Bill."
  Little Gems, Full episode guides, loads of images, text, sounds from a vast list of old childrens TV
  adventures and bay bentines bleep booster bottle cockleshell gems kum lane little michael potty puddle riddlers spooks the time
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• Mathematicians discover a new class of shape : The ‘soft cell’
  "In two dimensions, soft cells have curved boundaries with two pinched corners called cusps."
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• Mystery of Prince Rupert’s Drop at 130,000 fps
  Prince Rupert's drops are glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water.
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• Nine months of diarrhea after a Mexican meal
  Strum WB. Nine months of diarrhea after a Mexican meal. Hosp. Pract. (Office Edn.) 1986, Jun 15 ; 21(6):54-6.
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• Nooscope mystery : The strange device of Putin's new man Anton Vaino
  "The article describes a new device called a 'nooscope' which, it says, can tap into global consciousness and 'detect and register changes in the biosphere and in human activity'."
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• Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE
  US government film about Lookout Mountain Laboratory nuclear tests, 1953.
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• Optical Fibre History
  "The site is devoted entirely to the early STL part of the history of optical fibre communications."
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• Postcode & Address Finder
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• Private renting
  Scottish Government policies.
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• Public Information Films [BFI]
  includes "Charley says...", "Lonely Water" and "Protect and Survive".
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• Public Information Films [TNA]
  includes Joe & Petunia, disused fridges, and Charley.
  For the first time view complete Public Information films on the National Archives website, featuring a selection some of the most memorable and influential Central Office of Information films from the last 60 years to celebrate the 60th Aniversary of the COI.
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• Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1270 to Present
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• Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions
  Ratti C, et al. (2010) Redrawing the Map of Great Britain from a Network of Human Interactions. PLoS ONE 5(12) "Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? [...] Our partitioning algorithm yields geographically cohesive regions that correspond remarkably well with administrative regions, while unveiling unexpected spatial structures that had previously only been hypothesized..."
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