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Album A Day 2019 #1: What Big Teeth
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This is a document of my album-a-day listening project. Each entry originally comes out as a tinyletter and subscribers to that get intros and miscellanea as well as the LP reviews. When a new letter goes out, the previous letter goes up here. A fine[…]

Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 13
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Which hospital:
1 Was a beneficiary of the South Sea Bubble?
2 Recalls an alternative title of Princess Diana?
3 Was built as a memorial to a solicitor’s wife at Moor Edge?
4 Was renamed after a Welsh surgeon and a pioneering English nurse?
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Omargeddon #6: Corazones
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There’s the Mars Volta and there’s the Mars Volta Group, and it’s important to understand the difference between the two. The Mars Volta is the partnership of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and the Mars Volta Group is the evol[…]

Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 12
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1 Who was allowed a gill of beer a day?
2 Who viewed his domain upon Arkindale Side?
3 With what birth defect was Greene’s corvid assassin afflicted?
4 Whose gait was likened to that of a gentleman with exceedingly tight footwear?
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Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 11
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1 What was reduced by 20 in 1967?
2 What urges adhesion to the desk on terra firma?
3 What prohibited shoes or boots with spikes or springs?
4 What postulates that individuals in warmer climates have longer limbs?
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Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 10
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(Into the 2nd half now, come on…)
1 Where is the Blue Slipper?
2 Where did nightingales warble and sing?
3 From where were the boys evacuated to Brantwood?
4 Where did Sophie’s grandson find the window too narrow?
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The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2018: #30-#21
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“Noswaith dda! Dwi’n Duo, y tylluanod Cymreig! Roeddwn i’n siomedig iawn am fod Kat yn rhoi’r gorau i wneud Duolingo y llynedd. Gwn ei bod hi’n brysur iawn, ond mae fy planed yn marw, ac mae angen Quosh arnom. Pam ydych […]

Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 9
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1 Who wrote about the polymath, Joseph Bologne?
2 Whose prestige product honours a former naval person?
3 Who progressed from Arras via Sens and Rouen to finally settle in Avignon?
4 Who was the life and soul of King’s Abbot, but was stabbed by the[…]

Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 7 (really)
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Which periodical:
1 Was found under Adrian’s bed by his mother?
2 Provided Mr Finch with a £10 prize for solving a crossword?
3 Carried the headline DIAR KNAB NI EFIL OT THGUORB EERHT?
4 Published an ode by the poet laureate to the seasonal fluct[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Movie Poll 2018: #30 – #21
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And we’re back, to the next segment. I promised you Jean Luc Godard and he does feature in one of the films below, but even his hardcore fans couldn’t push his most recent offering into the top forty.
So we have another all female heist,[…]

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