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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

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From Project Gutenberg:

Newark College of Engineering Bulletin, v. 11, No. 4, December 15, 1938

by Newark College of Engineering

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/67696



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The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist (Scott Lincicome/The Dispatch)

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LG and Dolby partner to release the first FlexConnect soundbar

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#citizen : a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises

- French: citoyen

- German: Bürger

- Italian: cittadino

- Portuguese: cidadão

- Spanish: ciudadano

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China Declares Missouri an Economic and Reputational Menace in New Legal Action (AG Hanaway/Attorney General Office of Missouri)

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Defense Dept. Opens Formal Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly (John Ismay/New York Times)

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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

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Apple might be bringing back a high-end iMac.

Leaked kernel debug kit files have references suggesting that Apple is working on a new iMac with an M5 Max chip, MacRumors reports. Return of the iMac Pro?

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Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.