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  • New Holland Brewing And Dungeons & Dragons Reunite For A New…

    [ad_1] Craft brewery and distillery New Holland Brewing Co. is announcing the return of its collaboration with Hasbro, a leading games, IP and toy company, and its Wizards of the Coast division, stewards of the iconic DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (D&D) franchise. The collaboration kicks off with the launch of a bold new flavor in the Dragon’s Milk Reserve…

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  • A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has…

    [ad_1] Dan Pelz­er died ear­li­er this year at the age of 92, leav­ing behind a hand­writ­ten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His fam­i­ly had it dig­i­tized, put it online, and now it’s gone viral, some­what to the sur­prise of those of us who’d nev­er heard of him before. But that, it…

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  • Is £7m for a handbag absurd or justified?

    [ad_1] How a fashion frenzy is gripping auction houses – and sending prices sky high [ad_2] Source link

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  • Lula 3.0 and the austerity trap

    [ad_1] Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through his third term, macroeconomic indicators paint a fairly rosy picture of the country’s trajectory under his administration: GDP growth exceeded expectations, and the unemployment rate fell to historic levels. On…

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  • Paizo Partners With DnD Beyond to Distribute Abomination Vau…

    [ad_1] Paizo, the people behind Pathfinder and Starfinder, are partnering up with Dungeons and Dragons to distribute one of its most popular campaigns through the digital platform DnDBeyond in a move. Abomination Vaults, one of the best known campaigns for Pathfinder 2e, is being added to DnDbeyond in 2024 5e format. It’s so well known…

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  • Best Single Dad Romance Books To Read

    [ad_1] Follow us on Social Media Last Updated on March 13, 2025 by Jella Erhard Dive into the captivating world of single dad romance books, where athlete, firefighter, actor, and billionaire fathers navigate love in big and small towns, with top picks available on Kindle Unlimited. PIN ME for later   Must-Read Single Dad Romance…

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  • Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like …

    Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like …

    [ad_1] Image by Rochester Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy, via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons When New York City host­ed The World’s Fair in 1964, Isaac Asi­mov, the pro­lif­ic sci-fi author and pro­fes­sor of bio­chem­istry at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty, took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to won­der what the world would look like 50 years hence — assum­ing the world sur­vived the nuclear threats of the Cold…

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  • God, Us, and Them – Part II: Ufology 101

    [ad_1] This is the second article in a three-part series. (Read Part I here.) In the first part of this series, we introduced the idea of exotheology—theological reflection on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The goal was to establish a framework for thinking about alien life without distorting Scripture or drifting into ungrounded speculation. Now,…

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  • How The Odyssey is already gunning to be 2026’s biggest film

    [ad_1] Marketing campaigns for summer blockbusters have traditionally kicked in around six months before release. But one film not playing by these rules is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, his much-discussed take on Homer’s epic, starring Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong’o and many more. Earlier this month, more than a year in advance of…

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  • Writing on the wall, writing on the water

    [ad_1] Cofiwch Dryweryn (remember Tryweryn). The walls exhort us in bright red and white, from Llanrhystud in West Wales to Chicago. And the writing’s not only on the wall: it’s on a sticker on a lamppost outside Camden Market in North London, on posters and mugs and car bumpers and T-shirts, all the material media…

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