December 2010
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National Geographic Magazine: Thirteen countries... →
nationalgeographicmagazine: NGS stock photo by Michael Nichols As we head into the Chinese Year of the Tiger (starting on February 14), here’s a bit of encouraging news: All 13 tiger-range countries have pledged to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger. Populations of wild tigers…
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20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the... →
There are at least 250,000 words in the English language. However, to think that English – or any language – could hold enough expression to convey the entirety of the human experience is as arrogant of an assumption as it is naive. My favorites? Toska, litost, and torschlusspanik.
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271 Picasso paintings discovered in Paris
“The pieces, dating from 1900 to 1932, include portraits of Picasso’s first wife, Olga, nine highly-prized Cubist collages worth €40 million (£36 million), a watercolour from his “blue” period, studies of his hand on canvas, gouaches, around 30 lithographs and 200 drawings.” (source)
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