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Friday, June 19, 2020

Weekend Links 6-19-20

Happy Friday! Here is your roundup of interesting articles for your weekend reading.


Lessons learned from Alan Jacobs' How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. This looks like a good book to read.

I don't necessarily believe the British Museum is haunted but the article is interesting to read anyway.

Charles Dickens had a complicated relationship with the police force of his day which is personified in his character Insepctor Bucket from Bleak House


The mystery surrounding Hattie McDaniel's missing Oscar. McDaniel made history in 1939 by being the first black performer win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Gone With the Wind.

This Sunday is Father's Day here in the United States. Here's a history of how the holiday came into being. 

Somehow this article on the enduring appeal of Peanuts really resonated with me. 

An appreciation for Alan Bradley's Flavia De Luce novels. I have read a couple of these and have thoroughly enjoyed them. 

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