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You are an immortal who has been alive for over 2000 years. Nowadays, you work as a history teacher. Thing is, a lot of the history textbooks are just flat-out WRONG, and you would know; you were there for a lot of the events they cover. Fed up, you decide to teach what ACTUALLY happened.

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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"a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"

4x07 The Initiative

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if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

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Alright, this is a poem about the most recent guy I was into (mutual, btw) and conflicted about, was getting to know more and more right before I left the country. And although we’re now over 9,300 miles apart, I’ll do what I can for our lives to cross again. I rather like this poem and I figured I’d just post it here because I haven’t posted an original piece in a long time.

"Connect The Stars"

Splashed across his face

his freckles form stepping stones

through my thoughts.

i connect the dots like the constellation

of my emotions

a fluid milky way i'm still discerning.

we orbit one another

and i get drawn in by his gravity

his gentle aura an encompassing atmosphere.

Hazel and emerald

sparkling gems glowing in the sun

like the soft golden light

drifting through a lush forest canopy.

he turns and the colors shift

they settle on me

I try to listen but the words fade away

his lashes form bars to my escape.

And in those close moments

I long to close the distance

and try to see the full picture.

My celestial thoughts and feelings

have to be pulled back down to earth

and they return like a scattered meteor shower

burning up in our evoked ozone

some discernible, some not.

A mirror

I lose myself to him

As I reflect his every smile.

And get lost in thoughts of him

A tangled maze of doubt and hope

Am I spiraling up or down?

Either way, the thrill is worth the uncertainty.

He is a timepiece forged over time

Interlocked internal workings

some cogs chipped through the years

a rotating puzzle yet immaculate

as his soul ticks away.

I stubbornly and pointlessly

push back against Murphy and his petty laws.

A Sisyphean effort at best in this city

A well of chaos,

I’m desperately treading water.

“Go with the flow.”

He believes in fate

predestination

and I take comfort in the unknown

hoping to mold it.

But the universe laughs

So I relinquish plans in glittering thoughts.

Stardust, we float through the universe

Neither created nor destroyed.

I sit there and listen to him

Heaven is overrated.

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THE GARDEN OF WORDS  言の葉の庭 2013, dir. Makoto Shinkai