Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir and her untimely lost friend Zaza (NYT link). Beauvoir wrote this book [Inseparable] in 1954, five years after publishing The Second Sex, and made the mistake of showing it t…
Fun with place name patterns
Peer into the Europe’s past by looking at place names, for example to see the range of Roman conquest of Britain or the historical borders of Poland and Silesia.