"Name that government! Or something like that." For Election Day 2018, Merriam-Webster invites you to take a forms of government quiz."
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Signature recommended "5 good writing habits you need to learn now."
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Mental Floss explored "why the letters q, w and x were once illegal in Turkey."
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"We know what kind of "smart" you are based on how you create a reading nook," Buzzfeed noted.
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Atlas Obscura checked out "the Soviet children's books that broke the rules of propaganda."
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Death lit. Thomas Maloney picked the "top 10 deaths in fiction" for the Guardian, and a suicide letter by French poet Charles Baudelaire sold at auction for €234,000 (about $266,820).