#TWA.today
#madrigals
Italy.epicenter.Renaissance.secular music.precursor to opera?
#webster.dictionary
"He introduced American words, some of them derived from Native American languages: skunk, squash, wigwam, hickory, opossum, lengthy, and presidential, Congress, and caucus, which were not relevant in England's monarchy."
"In his book The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture (2011) Joshua Kendall argued that Noah Webster would today be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder."
"Shut up, shut up, I'm busy ..." - Titanic.personal messages.SMS.shutupshutupimbusy.
#printing press.modern.HA!
"The Cincinnati Times was likely the very first to use a Bullock press, with the New York Sun installing one soon after. Bullock was installing a press for The Philadelphia Press when he kicked at a mechanism; his foot got caught, his leg was crushed, and he died a few days later during surgery to amputate. His press went on to revolutionize the newspaper business."
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