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Happy Canada Day!

(not my photo -- if anybody knows who the photographer is, please let me know!)

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Three quizzes from me last August, and they ranged from Siouxsie Sioux to L.M. Montgomery to Horace Smith. So, let's hear it for eclecticism, yes!

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Paul Rumsey (b. 1953) - The Library

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There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

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Things took a turn for the literary in my Sporcle-quiz-making in late July of last year! Including a start to a CanLit series that I have, um, not gotten around to continuing with (note to self, etc., etc.). And a pretty good Order-Up quiz, if I do say so myself, on Chaucer.

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If you want to test your knowledge of MLP characters these two quizzes should contain every pony from the MLP:FIM universe including comics. If you noticed any I missed or any alternate answers I missed be sure to tell me.

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For those of you interested in the Tocharian people, or indeed in the history of Central Asia or the Indo-European language family, I came across this wonderful resource recently while doing research for a Sporcle quiz. It's a massive collection of Tocharian manuscripts, with photographs (of many of them), transliterations, translations, etc. It's a wonderful site -- congratulations and much gratitude to the people who have set it up and curated it!

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And a second Ancient Peoples quiz from yesterday!

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A couple of new quiz offerings for my Ancient Peoples playlist yesterday -- here's the first of them!

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Joan Jett, 1982

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In the face of what's happening, this is all I've got to offer. I know it's not enough, but here it is.

TEXT:

THE PERSIAN GHOST

we are all haunted by the ghost of Xerxes we all dream that we stand in the pass repelling him not with swords and spears but with shells and missiles and earth-shaking bombs all in the hope of drawing blood from a ghost so angry so scared that we fail to see drop by drop we have bled ourselves white

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Supermoon. Temple of Poseidon, near Athens, Greece. July 3, 2023, by Alkis Konstantinidis

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I think my favourite bit of this is that the words in the three "X by Y" phrases at the beginning are completely interchangeable in the context of the blurb:

BOUND BY DESIRE TEMPTED BY DESTINY UNLEASHED BY BLOOD ...and so on.

@etirabys and I went to a Barnes & Noble and were enjoying ragging on the blurbs in the YA section. This one might be my favorite:

"Yeah, she suffered serious trauma, but two years is still at The Club."

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Art by the legendary Naoyuki Kato (加藤 直之, Katō Naoyuki, born 1952)

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