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		<title>&#8220;I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.&#8221; &#8211; Edgar Allan Poe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 07:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.&#8221; &#8211; Edgar Allan Poe&#8220;A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.&#8221; &#8211; C.S. Lewis“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really]]></description>
		
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		<title>Screen time up, reading down? Children&#8217;s reading rates plummet to lowest since records began 2 decades ago, report finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 07:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) Children aren&#8217;t reading for pleasure according to new research The National Literacy Trust&#8217;s annual literacy survey 2025 reveals that one in three children and young people do not enjoy reading, with only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds stating that they enjoy reading in their spare time. This is the]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sleep amongst 22,000 books &#8211; St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral&#8217;s secret library open for one overnight stay in honor of World Book Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 07:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) With its towering dome, St. Paul’s Cathedral is one of the most famous structures in all of London. Soon, some lucky travelers will have a chance to spend the night at the famed landmark—the first to do so since the St. Paul’s Watch fire brigade took nightly shifts protecting]]></description>
		
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		<title>Meditations &#8211; journal of second-century A.D. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who turned to philosophy and introspection for answers to life and happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 07:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive &#8211; to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.&#8221; &#8211; Marcus Aurelius (quote) What were Marcus Aurelius&#8217; rules for life? His self-help classic has the answers Despite being written for his eyes only,]]></description>
		
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		<title>Michael Gambon (1940 &#8211; 2023), internationally known for playing Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter, was &#8220;one of the last links to the great generation of actors&#8221; with six-decade-long career</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) Sir Michael John Gambon CBE (19 October 1940 – 27 September 2023) was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and four BAFTA TV Awards.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Authors Guild and 17 prominent writers including Grisham, Connelly, Baldacci, GRRM file class action lawsuit against OpenAI for &#8220;flagrant and harmful&#8221; copyright infringement, 10,000+ authors sign open letter, &#8220;people keep telling me they bought my newest book… I didn’t write&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) George R. R. Martin, Jodi Picoult and other famous writers join Authors Guild in class action lawsuit against OpenAI New York (CNN) — A group of famous fiction writers joined the Authors Guild in filing a class action suit against OpenAI on Wednesday, alleging the company’s technology is illegally]]></description>
		
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		<title>Musk&#8217;s trick tweet treat: classic verse Cao Zhi (AD 192-232) composed within 7 steps on his brother Cao Pi&#8217;s order about brothers without the word &#8220;brother&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 07:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) In a Monday tweet, Elon Musk wrote “humankind,” followed by the 1,800-year-old classical Chinese poem The Quatrain of Seven Steps. Here is the poem translated into English by Moss Roberts: Beans a simmer on a beanstalk flame From inside the pot expressed their ire: “Alive we sprouted on a]]></description>
		
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		<title>Amazing findings: Positive mind produces positive energy, and healthy you! by Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) In his book Power vs. Force, Dr. Hawkins goes through the scale consciousness. &#8230;from the lower levels of Shame, Guilt, Apathy, Fear, Anger, and Pride; to Courage, Acceptance, and Reason; all the way up to the more expanded levels of Love, Ecstasy, Peace, and Enlightenment. These “higher” energy fields]]></description>
		
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		<title>2009 &#8220;Spend wise, Guardian to Purse&#8221;&#8230; 2021 &#8220;Visit My Confidant&#8221; (p46-49  &#8220;Train of Morrow&#8221;) by LuCxeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 07:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spend wise &#8211; Guardian to Purse; waste less &#8211; Angel to Earth. Poll: protecting the planet given priority over economy growth quote from &#8220;Visit My Confidant&#8221;, page 46-49 of &#8220;Train of Morrow &#8211; Selected LuCxeed Poems Col .i.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Travelers can spend a night in the Parisian opera house that inspired the Phantom of the Opera, novel from real events and legends surrounding Palais Garnier</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 06:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Phantom of the Opera fans can now spend the night inside the opulent Parisian opera house that inspired the beloved musical and novel. Airbnb and the Opéra National de Paris have teamed up to transform one of the Palais Garnier’s chambers, the Box of Honor, into a lavish bedroom. While]]></description>
		
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