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Season 2 Finale (And a Peek Behind the Scenes!)
After around 20 new episodes, season 2 of the Vocabbett podcast is coming to a close! In episode 76, I dive into how I might be growing...
Margo Durrell—Quite the Character!
If you’ve seen The Durrells in Corfu , you’ll undoubtedly remember the slightly dotty daughter in the series, Margo. When I finished the...
Cleopatra's Little Sister: The Cooler of the Two?
We’ve all heard of Cleopatra, but how many people know she had a little sister — and a pretty remarkable one at that? Arsinoe IV was...
Endlessly Exiled...But She Still Didn't Quit
When most of us think of suffragettes (a.k.a. women who fought for the right to vote), we think of Susan B. Anthony or Emmeline...
18th-Century Heiress-Turned-Pirate? Tell Me More!
“18th-century heiress-turned-pirate” may sound like the tagline of a cheesy romance novel, but remarkably, it’s a fairly accurate...
The *Other* British Warrior Queen
If you’re an Anglophile (lover of the English) like me, you’ve probably heard of Boudica, the warrior queen who took on the Romans. But...
Kudos and Magical Glory
I don’t remember the first time I heard the word “kudos,” but I distinctly remember thinking that it was 1970’s slang. How wrong I was! I...
The Beak Where People Speak
Amid the recent inauguration news, I kept hearing the word “rostrum.” “As he approaches the rostrum tomorrow…”“Donald Trump began his...
What Everyone's Missing With the Latest SAT News
With colleges dropping the SAT left and right — and the recent announcement that they’re dropping the essay and subject tests — it’s...
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