Chronicles

[just-shower-thoughts]

Dora is an explorer, but the only places she visits are already mapped.

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The enigma in Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations ’ is a hidden theme on which all the variations are based but which is never itself played.

https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/896023403341111296

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The Doctor Who theme... recorded in 1963, was made even before basic analog synthesizers came into use. “There are no musicians... there are no synthesizers, and in those days, we didn’t even have a 2-track or a stereo machine.”

http://www.openculture.com/2016/01/the-fascinating-story-of-how-delia-derbyshire-created-the-original-doctor-who-theme.html

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About 127 people have died worldwide while trying to take selfies in the past two-and-a-half years

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