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maddierose: A Collection of Rare and Obscure WordsCheiloproclitic - Being...
A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words
Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips.
Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on.
Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge.
Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone.
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"And so she thought about him as she never could have imagined thinking about anyone, having premonitions that he would be where he was not, wanting him to be where he could not be, awaking with a start, with the physical sensation that he was looking at her in the darkness while she slept."
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Write World: Writing Tips from C.S. Lewis
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30,000 year old flower revived.
Scientists have resurrected a flower from plant tissues found frozen in Siberian permafrost, thought to be 30,000-32,000 years old. The new Silene stenophylla is healthy and fertile, and producing viable seeds.
The experiment has excited many because it proves that material trapped in the permafrost is recoverable and usable - scientists have been working to recover other species of plant and animal life from the same area, such as the woolly mammoth.
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Fun Fact of the Day: As first pointed out by an unnamed Harvard music major, the song used to score the anti-gay, Christian-centric political ad released this week by GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry was heavily inspired by composer Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” (SFW link, NSFW site).
Copland, a gay American Jew, was also known to have supported the Communist Party.
[hpronline / spaceghetto.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw09z9CXsw1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Fun Fact of the Day: As first pointed out by an unnamed Harvard music major, the song used to score the anti-gay, Christian-centric political ad released this week by GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry was heavily inspired by composer Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” (SFW link, NSFW site).
Copland, a gay American Jew, was also known to have supported the Communist Party.
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"Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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![thedailywhat:
Fun Fact of the Day: As first pointed out by an unnamed Harvard music major, the song used to score the anti-gay, Christian-centric political ad released this week by GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry was heavily inspired by composer Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” (SFW link, NSFW site).
Copland, a gay American Jew, was also known to have supported the Communist Party.
[hpronline / spaceghetto.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw09z9CXsw1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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“It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”— ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
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“A poem is a naked person.”— Bob Dylan
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“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”— Oscar Wilde
