Welcome to Friday,
Here are five articles I found worth sharing this week:
What an opening sentence! “To say that truth is stranger than fiction is to say that you don’t read much fiction.”
This week’s long read takes a look at several medieval warriors who all died fighting at a very old age.
A look at family life during the Assyrian empire.
Why we speak more strangely at home – on familial language.
E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” is a short story about a future society which has grown decadent and complacent, for The Machine brings them everything they could want or need via a screen.
Currently reading: 1846: The Year of Decision by Bernard DeVoto
Have a great weekend.
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