The History of English in 10 Minutes - 0 views
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Jenni Young on 02 Mar 13video - 10 one-minute episodes on the history of English.
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The Adventure of English - 0 views
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Wikipedia entry on the 2003 BBC series about the history of English. 8 episodes
The Adventure of English (BBC) - (1) Birth of a Language - 0 views
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BBC series on the history of English (2003)
Confronting the Fact of Fiction and the Fiction of Fact - 0 views
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When movies like "Lincoln," "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" traffic in history, exactly what are their obligations?
The Language Wars by Henry Hitchings - review - 2 views
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Review of "an entertaining and thoughtful history of the pedantry, scholarship and prejudice that surround the English language"
When Vanilla Was Brown And How We Came To See It As White : Code Switch : NPR - 0 views
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Vanilla has become a cultural metaphor for blandness and whiteness. But the flavor's history is rife with conquest and slavery and theft.
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Vanilla has become a cultural metaphor for blandness and whiteness. But the flavor's history is rife with conquest and slavery and theft.
brief video history of product placement - 0 views
A history lost in translation - 1 views
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article from PP Post about Srekor I, a village where Laotian is the mother tongue
King's speech - 0 views
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Playwright Katori Hall spins theatre from a moment in history, MLK's final speech
Sex and Candy - 0 views
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Article about the strange history of women, sensuality and chocolate has links to four old ads for chocolate.
And the Word of the Year Is... Selfie! : The New Yorker - 0 views
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Silvia Killingsworth explores the history and culture surrounding the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013: "selfie" (blog)
Meet the new X-Men: All women - 0 views
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For the first time in its 50-year history, the X-Men will be made up entirely of women: Storm, Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey and Psylocke make up the mutant team in "X-Men" #1, in stores May 29.
Nazis, Lynching and Obamacare - 0 views
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Language, like political debate, has gone off the rails. Let's show words and history more respect (NYT)
Get up, stand up - the story of pop and protest - 0 views
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Part 1/10 of 2005 PBS documentary which covers the history of "protest music" from the early 20th century to the first decade of the 21st.
John Agard - Poetry Archive - 0 views
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John Agard - biography and some readings of his poems, including "Flag" and "Checking out my history"