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Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date. That’s a tough one. MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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You can only reblog this today.

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This is my friend's thoughts on this election and it pretty sums up my thoughts

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#today we’re BITCHIN’

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Bonfire Night

“Remember, remember the fifth of November…“⁠⁠Guy Fawkes is said to have been carrying this iron lantern when he was arrested in the cellars underneath the Houses of Parliament on the night of 4–5 November 1605. Fawkes and his conspirators planned to ignite barrels of gunpowder concealed under firewood in the cellar during the state opening of Parliament, with the aim of blowing up the chamber and killing the Protestant King James I. Thanks to an anonymous warning, the cellars were searched, Fawkes was discovered and the plot failed.

⁠⁠Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London, and later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure.⁠⁠

Gifted to the University by Robert Heywood in 1641, the lantern joined the Ashmolean collection over two hundred years later in 1887. Guy Fawkes’ lantern is currently on display in our Ashmolean Story gallery on our lower ground floor.⁠⁠

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We’ll have to do dinner Thursday night instead.

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After 2 days in Freiburg, I hopped on a train to Basel. I was not prepared for the heat. I'm from the North East in the UK where October is cold, windy and rainy. I brought jumpers, a scarf, gloves and an umbrella! It made a nice change to go out without a coat. I even managed to have my tea on the river al fresco. Basel did remind me a bit of Freiburg just slightly more expensive. I did have fun wandering the city and found an amazing bar in the Food Hall.

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A long, long time ago this was a travel blog so I decided to do a post on my recent trip. I had an amazing time in Freiburg just walking the streets and seeing the sights. It's a beautiful city and apparently their football team are doing quite well at the moment. I'd heard the legend of the bächle which is what piqued my interest in Freiburg in the first. It is somewhere I would definitely recommend and somewhere I would love to visit again. Thank you Freiburg

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‘Tsundoku’ is a Japanese word for the habit of buying too many books, letting them pile up in your house, and never reading them. 

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I normally try to keep this blog strictly about the glory that is art history, but I can’t avoid sharing a good architecture pun!

(Yes, I love puns)

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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.

Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed.

The failure of the plot is celebrated in Britain on the Fifth of November by the lighting of bonfires and the use of fireworks.

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