There are many unbelievable words in the English language–some so strange that they are rarely used. There are words for things most of us did not even know we need a word for. “There’s a word for that?” Some may deepen our vocabulary, but sometimes it is just entertaining to pick through the dictionary for fun.
Learn How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles With Little Effort
It seems that these days everyone is enjoying the game of Sudoko wherever they are. The Sudoku puzzle is ideal for whenever you have a few spare minutes and want to indulge in a little bit of thinking power. Sudoku, sometimes spelled “Su Doku”, is a puzzle that originated in Japan. The puzzle is known as a “placement” puzzle. In the United States Sudoku is sometimes called the “Number Place” puzzle.
Dog-eared Paperback of My Life by Lucius Shepard: The main premise behind this story isn't that a significant event (or insignificant, even) happened differently, but instead that a bunch of alternate Earths have converged. An author discovers a book by himself that he never wrote, which is the beginning of his discovery that these different versions of the Earth sometimes meet, sometimes briefly, sometimes not.
Robert Heinlein - The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein
The stories, originally published in the 1940s and '50s, showcase Heinlein's science-fictional approach to fantasy. Though magic works and the supernatural underlies ordinary life, the reader is always firmly anchored in a lawful reality. The setting is the USA, sometimes in the mid-20th century, sometimes in a near future, always featuring very American characters.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 13 January 2012
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Thomas Lord Cromwell is an Elizabethan history play, depicting the life of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, the minister of King Henry VIII of England, sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare.
