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"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.

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A 30 minute video about the origin and evolution of fonts - or technically correctly: typefaces

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Normandy Invasion, June 1944 (scontent-ham3-1.xx.fbcdn.net)
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Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are USS LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-310 (2nd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524. Note barrage balloons overhead and Army half-track convoy forming up on the beach. Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/d-day/26-G-2517.html

Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colourized-pictures-of-the-world-wars-and-other-periods-in-time/182158581977012

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Clockwise or counterclockwise? (psychologie-news.stangl.eu)
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