So the sultan sent his line to Hafiz of Shiraz with a request to complete the couplet by composing the second line. Legend ...

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“The practice of foretelling the future by interpreting a randomly chosen passage from a book, especially Bible,” says the Oxford Concise English Dictionary, is called “bibliomancy ...

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These lines come from Alan Hollinghurst's poem Isherwood is at Santa Monica, published in 1975 while he was reading English at Magdalen College, Oxford. The poem depicts one of his literary ...

What: Canberra Writers Festival 2024 at the National Library When: Saturday, 26 October 2024 and Sunday, 27 October 2024 from ...

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and special events such as trips to the Oxford English Dictionary and the British Library. Excellent library facilities are provided by the UCL Library, Senate House Library, and the British Library.