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The Fonts of All Knowledge

Here I am typing on a laptop and every character I select appears magically on my screen.

We’ve come a long way since 1455 when Johannes Gutenberg invented a metal movable type printing press.

We’ve certainly come a long way since the Phoenicians developed an alphabet, since the Sumerians developed cuneiform writing and since the Egyptians developed hieroglyphs.

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The Beautiful Game: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

This game was played on Monday Nov 29 2010.

An animation by Richard Swarbrick. @RikkiLeaks http://www.hotspurandargyle.com/ Created for Sky Sports. Music: Lady Labyrinth by Ludovico Einaudi

A Different Kind of Easter Tradition in Clontarf, Dublin

In March 2008 Martin Gayford, writing for The Telegraph published an article entitled The World’s 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them). At the outset it said “The human race has been making art for thousands of years. Here, in chronological order, critic Martin Gayford chooses his 50 artistic wonders of the [...]