Lists of Note @ListsOfNote

History's most interesting lists, edited by @shaunusher. Each Sunday, a new (old) list. listsofnote.com Newsletter 👉🏻 Joined December 2011

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Lists of Note @ListsOfNote

7 months ago

In her final months, desperately ill at the Gurdjieff Institute, Katherine Mansfield kept a list of words and phrases to be translated into Russian: listsofnote.com/p/i-am-cold

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Dr Isabella Rosner @IsabellaRosner

2 years ago

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):

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3 years ago

"For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery." The many reasons why Christopher Smart loved his cat: listsofnote.com/p/for-he-is-a-…

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Tom Rachman @TomRachman

3 years ago

7 names rejected for Disney’s “7 Dwarfs” (I’m not joking): *Biggo-Ego *Chesty *Flabby *Gaspy *Goopy *Jaunty *Strutty h/t the excellent @ListsOfNote book

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3 years ago

The (Oddest) Occupations of the English People in 1881: listsofnote.com/p/peas-maker-p…

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3 years ago

"Turn off that fucking cell phone—you can have no idea how unimportant your call is to us." The New Commandments, according to Christopher Hitchens: bit.ly/3Z3uC5D

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3 years ago

"You will stop talking to me if I request it." Einstein's list of demands, to be followed by his first wife: bit.ly/3E4wjYC

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3 years ago

A Catalogue of the Rarities, to be Seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-house: In Chelsea bit.ly/3I1cwM3

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3 years ago

"Splatte that pyke" A magnificent list of cooking terms from 1508: bit.ly/3kXKZli

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3 years ago

In 1865, following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, poet Walt Whitman wrote an elegy to mark the US President's death. He began by drawing up a list of words related to such loss: bit.ly/3iTmGVh

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3 years ago

“I sleep with only one eye closed; I sleep very hard. My bed is round with a hole in it for my head to go through. Every hour a servant takes my temperature and gives me another.” Erik Satie’s daily schedule: listsofnote.com/p/i-have-a-goo…