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#401 - Rory Sutherland - The Psychology Of Transport, Google Maps & Bear Attacks
player.fm-tuns are those important settlements, like Rushton, whose names include descriptions of resources that might be found there, such as water, a night’s lodging, timber supplies, a smith or a ferry.
Max Adams • The First Kingdom
WTF Happened In 1971?
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Dominic Maxwell • ‘One man came out to his wife in the bar after seeing the show’
Ted Hunt
ted-hunt.com“Back Stabbers” and “Love Train” for the O’Jays, and “Me and Mrs. Jones” for Billy Paul—all from 1972—and followed by “You Make Me Feel Brand New” (1973) for the Stylistics and “The Love I Lost” (1973) for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, there was no stopping Gamble and Huff until “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” (1979)
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Mr Brooke, necessarily, had his agents, who understood the nature of the Middlemarch voter and the means of enlisting his ignorance on the side of the Bill – which were remarkably similar to the means of enlisting it on the side against the Bill. Will stopped his ears. Occasionally Parliament, like the rest of our lives, even to our eating and appa
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Some plays, however, were firm favourites, commanding solid audiences for years; these were often rested for a while and successfully revived for further long runs. Chief among these at the Rose Theatre were Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus and Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy. The Rose Theatre was, when plague and governme
... See moreRuth Goodman • How to Be a Tudor
And without helping himself to a slice of the songwriting credits, which would have been standard practice. The failure of George Martin to rip them off remains one of the most bizarre elements of their story.