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“Ceu de Mapia … Heaven of Mapia .. a psychedelic utopia … a town of six hundred people   … carved out of the jungle by devotees of Santo Dai...

word of the day: raglan   context: “[During an] 1895 interview, [Peter] Doyle brought out a raglan of [Walt] Whitman’s and explained, ‘I n...

A book of poetry almost always includes an acknowledgments page, where the poet thanks magazines for publishing poems that are now being col...

word: autochthonous   context:  “as long as the States continue to absorb and be dominated by the poetry of the Old World, and remain unsu...

Three of the founding members of the British rock band Genesis — Peter Gabriel, Paul Rutherford, and Tony Banks — went to boarding school to...

In his book on unheralded work done by federal employees, Michael Lewis drops this nugget: “Police officers who had just come from an emotio...

When Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, bragged in her autobiography about shooting a pet dog for misbehavior — and because she wasn’t c...