Wednesday, May 20, 2015

This Is What William Shakespeare May Have Actually Looked Like

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Bard? More like babe. Toby Melville / Reuters The portrait is in botanist John Gerard's The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, published in 1598. Botanist and historian Mark Griffiths discovered the purported portrait of Shakespeare on the title page of an original copy of the book. As noted by Time, the "only images of Shakespeare were found in the First Folio of his...

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Which Character From "Saga" Are You?

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Lying...

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Here Are The Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read This Summer

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You’re going to need a bigger beach bag. Yuri Gripas / Reuters Gates' picks last year included book like the Pulitzer Prize winning The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert and Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System...

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U.S. Releases Contents Of Bin Laden's English-Language "Bookshelf"

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This Nov. 18, 2011, file photo shows the guesthouse inside Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Shaukat Qadir / AP WASHINGTON — The U.S. government this week is releasing the list of English-language texts that were recovered from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound after the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader in 2011. The list is the first public accounting...

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How The Media Would Report The Events Of "Game Of Thrones"

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News reports are coming. Robert Baratheon's death. BBC / HBO / BuzzFeed The execution of Eddard Stark. Time Inc. / HBO / BuzzFeed Rumours of Cersei and Jaime's relationship. News Corp / HBO / BuzzFeed The outbreak of The War of the Five Kings. CNN / HBO / BuzzFeed View Entire List ...

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16 "Mr Men" And "Little Miss" Characters That Sum Up London

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Sorry in advance for any childhoods we may ruin. Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au View Entire List ...

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"The Fault In Our Stars" Author John Green: We Have A Responsibility To Tackle Cancer

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Author John Green signs copies of his book during a "The Fault In Our Stars" red carpet and fan event in Nashville, Tennessee. Rick Diamond / Getty Images The first thing John Green asks me when we're introduced is what football team I support. On hearing my answer – Manchester United – the American author and Liverpool fanatic replies: “That’s terrible,” before adding: "I...

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What Are Your Favourite Books From Australian Authors?

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Time to get lost in a fictional world. Reading is a fantastic way to relax and enter a whole new, magical world. TriStar Pictures There's many fantastic Australian authors. Whether it's Melina Marchetta's coming of age tale Looking for Alibrandi... Penguin Australia Or Markus Zusack's brilliant international best-seller The Book Thief. Picador Perhaps an old book from childhood...

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Here's The One Thing That Should Be Changed In Harry Potter Movies

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We all have plenty of book-to-movie quibbles, but we’re missing the big picture here. We need Fat Amy like we need air. BUT HERE IS THE FAT LADY WE DESERVE. HERE IS THE FAT LADY WE NEED. View Entire List ...

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29 Breathtaking Tattoos Inspired By Books

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Wear your lit love on your sleeve. Maritsa Patrinos / BuzzFeed "I grew up with Harry Potter. He was my hero and I spent a lot of time escaping with him and his friends." —christopherd25 instagram.com "My little/big reminder to do what makes you happiest in life and stay true to yourself. For me, that meant changing my major in college two years into one degree and challenging...

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46 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In YA Literature

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“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” —John Green Thinkstock 1. "You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it too, and that's what scares you the most." —Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass Submitted by Samantha Mocadlo, Facebook 2. "Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice,...

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18 Times Tumblr Understood Your Bookshelf Problems

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Have books, need room. When a colorful book defies order and reason. notmonochrome.tumblr.com When your bookshelf worries keep you up at night. countmysinsclosemyeyes.tumblr.com When you realize you've *officially* run out of room. whitewineandcathair.com When you let a friend borrow a book and it's like there is a hole in your heart. amberthebooklion.tumblr.com View Entire List ...

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Rainbow Rowell On The Power Of Fan Fiction

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We talked to Rainbow Rowell, author of Fangirl and the forthcoming Carry On, about the power of taking what you love into yourself. It's not exactly a secret that fan fiction — stories written by fans of books, movies, or TV series about their favorite characters — is a thriving part of internet culture. There are entire websites (like Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, and FanFiction.net)...

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Are You More Like Margo Or Quentin From "Paper Towns?"

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“The town was paper, but the memories were not.” 20th Century Fo...

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21 Of Erotica's Hottest Scenes, Described In Three Words

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“Barn, rope, sawhorse.” Last week, BuzzFeed Books took a trip to Dallas to attend the 32nd annual RT Booklovers Convention for romance readers and writers. We challenged fans of some of the racier stuff to describe the hottest scenes they'd ever read or written in just three words (or phrases, whatever, the rules here are loose). Here are the creative, provocative results: BuzzFeed BuzzFeed Hot...

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