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Climbing Olympus: Explanatory Notes for the Blog Categories
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A Guide to Winged Angelology
This wooden cherub of nineteenth-century vintage once adorned a house transported from the abandoned settlement
Purity as the Handmaiden of Art
Beauty, we are told, lies in the eye of the beholder. Yet the Kenozero exhibition
Windows on Kenozero
The creators of the Kenozero exhibition in Moscow achieved a complete, immersive illusion of the
The Fish Strikes Back
An Exercise in Etymological Re-enactment and Aquatic Karma The study of language is eternally replete
An Etymological Dessert from Persian Apples
On Ribs, Heroes, and the Surprising Geography of Language Summer is upon us, bringing with
From Ice Cream to the Messiah
The conversation recently turned, as civilized discourses so often do on a sultry afternoon, to