It’s that time of April, bookworms, that sends shivers of terror up my spine: tax season. Technically, the deadline was a few days ago, but everyone still seems to be crazy. They say the only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes and yet that still doesn’t help someone like me [...]
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Word of the Week (67)
On April 11, 1814, the Treaty of Fontainebleau ended the war against Napoleon and exiled the short little megalomaniac to the island of Elba. Alas, it seems even defeated megalomaniacs still suffer from bouts of hauteur, because just a year later, Napoleon would escape and try to rule France – and the world – once [...]
Word of the Week (66)
Today is April 4th, or 4/4 and if I figured out a way to add another 4 into the equation (like, for instance, posting this at 4pm instead of in the morning), we would have 4/4 at 4 and in math, 4+4+4 equals 12, which is also the shorthand for the year. And that, my [...]
