While it was not my intention to solely focus on European and North American holiday traditions, the Oxford English Dictionary includes very few entries (or few entries with more than…
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Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” But recently I watched this old Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life episode, hosted by Alan Watts, that…
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first celebration of Thanksgiving “was held by the Plymouth colony in 1621, in thankfulness for their first harvest in America after a year of…
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The first time I ever heard the word java it was as a slang for coffee. Probably on a cartoon or something. I avoided coffee until I was about 18…
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cinematography We usually understand cinematography as the art or technique of motion-picture photography, a very visual medium. The term comes from the French word cinématographe, which was originally coined by…