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Over the past three years, possibly as an unexpected effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and social distancing, Iโve found myself exploring something Iโd never expressed much interest in: mushrooms. It began innocently enough: as I started taking my solitary nature walks, I also started noticing these silent and elusive creatures of vastly different colour, …
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Dear friends and followers of the Grammaticus blog, I am very happy to present the fourth title in my series of Grammaticus Free Library ebooks, designed primarily for English language learners (levels C1/C2), and all lovers of good literature. This one contains a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'The Minister's Black Veil'. First published in …
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I first read this book a few years ago, in the days leading up to Halloween. I remember searching online for books to get me in the holiday mood, and among all the shiny, glossy titles (and there are so many!), there was this one that looked quite different โ a small, unassuming volume, with …
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Veles counts among the most prominent deities of the Slavic pantheon. Heโs one of the so-called horned gods of Europe; like them, he is typically depicted as a mature man, bearded, usually in the company of forest animals.
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