8th June 1949 - George Orwell's book 1984 (Nineteen eighty-four) was published.

25th April 1719 - Daniel Defoe's famous book, Robinson Crusoe, was published. 1886 - Sigmund Freud opened his practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna. 1953 - James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA.1967 - The first law legalizing abortion in the United […]

Reading can make you a better conversationalist. Neighbours will never complain that your book is too loud. Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been perfected: You'd better read. Books have stopped bullets: Reading might save your life. Dinosaurs didn't read - look what happened to them. Source Thanks to Marianne for sharing.

In a study carried out to mark the launch of Planet Word, a book by JP Davidson, it seems that a string of traditionally British words such as cripes and balderdash are dying out amid the popularity of shortened text-style terms. Researchers also found that only 82 per cent are familiar with the word raconteur […]

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They split the final book into two parts, so maybe this isn't quite as far-fetched as you might think.