#biography

✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

📚️ Yiddish: Biography of a Language "He addresses key aspects of Yiddish as the language of a diasporic population, whose speakers have always used more than one language. As the vernacular of a marginalized minority, Yiddish has often been held in low regard compared to other languages, and its legitimacy as a language has been questioned." 🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yiddish-9780190651961 #Yiddish #Language #Biography #Linguistics #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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BBC News @bbc_news@robot.villas

· 2w ago

Settling old scores with royals drives Spencer's book, but Diana steals focus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqy7z21ekkrro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #Royals #History #Biography

Will Earl Spencer's Diana book damage the monarchy?

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Will Earl Spencer's Diana book damage the monarchy?

What more revelations are going to appear now the full details of his Diana book are published?

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kottke.org @kottke@robot.villas

· 2w ago

Review of a new book on Stephen Hawking . "The... https://kottke.org/26/09/0049613-review-of-a-new-book-on-s #Science #Books #Biography

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Review of a new book on Stephen Hawking. “The uncomfortable truth is that Hawking’s overweening ambition and self-promotion, his repeated failure to acknowledge

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Wikipedia Article of the Day @wikipedia_featured@robot.villas

· 3w ago

Menches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menches #Wikipedia #History #Biography

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BBC News @bbc_news@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

Angela Rayner: Labour's working-class warrior bounces back https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlz3p0ryylo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #Politics #UKNews #Biography

Angela Rayner: Cabinet comeback for one of Labour's biggest names

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Angela Rayner: Cabinet comeback for one of Labour's biggest names

The potential contender to replace Keir Starmer is now back in the cabinet under Andy Burnham.

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BBC News @bbc_news@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

Ruthless plotter? Flip-flopper? Dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3043vl2l7zo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #Politics #Biography #UKNews

Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham

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Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham

Who is the real Andy Burnham? Laura Kuenssberg talks to more than 20 people who know him to work it out

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BBC News @bbc_news@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

Ruthless plotter? Flip-flopper? Dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3043vl2l7zo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #Politics #Biography #UKNews

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Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham

Who is the real Andy Burnham? Laura Kuenssberg talks to more than 20 people who know him to work it out

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BBC News @bbc_news@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

A very quick guide to Andy Burnham https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv9qe6wj7o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #Politics #UK #Biography

A very quick guide to new prime minister Andy Burnham and his policies

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A very quick guide to new prime minister Andy Burnham and his policies

Andy Burnham replaces Sir Keir Starmer as PM, after winning the backing of Labour MPs.

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BBC News @bbc_news@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

Ruthless plotter? Flip-flopper? Dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3043vl2l7zo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #Politics #Biography #Analysis

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Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham

Who is the real Andy Burnham? Laura Kuenssberg talks to more than 20 people who know him to work it out

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BBC News @bbc_news@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

From glamour model to nightclub manager - who was pardoned killer Ruth Ellis? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr4v775vx1o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #History #Crime #Biography

Who was pardoned killer Ruth Ellis from Denbighshire?

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Who was pardoned killer Ruth Ellis from Denbighshire?

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a conditional posthumous pardon.

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NPR Topics: Movies @npr_movies@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

'Everywhere Man' traces the trajectory of under-the-radar music producer Peter Asher https://www.npr.org/2026/07/07/nx-s1-5884791/everywhere-man-traces-the-trajectory-of-under-the-radar-music-producer-peter-asher #Music #Biography #Producer

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'Everywhere Man' traces the trajectory of under-the-radar music producer Peter Asher

When Asher was a teen in the '60s, Paul McCartney lived with his family and wrote Beatles songs. Asher was part of the British Invasion before launching the careers of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.

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✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net

· 3mo ago

It is jarring to read to how Jean - Jacques Rousseau writes about inequality, its consequences for the psychological wellbeing of humans in his philosophical writings; and then on the other hand, sends his own five biological children to an orphanage to be brought up. #Reading #Philosophy #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #Psychology #History #Rousseau #Biography

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kottke.org @kottke@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and... https://kottke.org/26/07/0049236-how-isadora-duncan-died #History #Dance #Biography

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You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and suddenly some contemporary pop culture thing snaps into place? Anyway, I found out how Isadora Duncan died an

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