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A Brief History of English Numeracy

The people of late medieval and early modern England were almost universally numerate. Is our ability to count the thing that makes us human?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/brief-history-english-numeracy

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The Titan plant, which only blooms once every two years. Endemic to the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, the ‘corpse flower’ stinks of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Photograph: Sebastian Kettley/Kew Gardens

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Mystery as 1,600-year-old ancient Irish stone unearthed in English garden

“The 1,600-year-old stone, which is inscribed with an Irish language from the 4th century AD, was unearthed by a geography teacher in Coventry, West Midlands, in 2020.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/irish-stone-found-coventry-mystery-b2545408.html

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Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out

"Council says punctuation mark must go to suit computer databases, but grammar purists see signs of falling standards"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshires-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents

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