Paul Biba

@paulkbiba.bsky.social

Editor, Project Gutenberg Facebook page; former Editor-in-Chief of Teleread (the Net's first ebook blog), retired lawyer specializing in international transactions. Over 1 million miles flown on PanAm.

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8 Trade Goods That Once Shaped the World Economy, Now Insignificant | TheCollector From whale oil to preserved bird droppings, these trade goods were of unbelievable value but are now consigned to history.

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09.12.2025 21:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Stunning Footage From a Reconnaissance Plane Flying Into the Eye of Hurricane Melissa The US Air Force 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron’s "Hurricane Hunters" captured stunning footage as they flew into the eye of Hurricane Melissa.

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09.12.2025 21:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Announcing the winner of the Restless Books 2025 Kellman Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the Restless Books 2025 Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature, an annual award given to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author that inclu…

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09.12.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The year’s best literary podcasts. With the caveat that “best” is a relative—and relatively silly—metric, it’s been a pretty great year for people talking about books. And if you’re the kind of reader who&#82…

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09.12.2025 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911) Marie Curie’s 1911 Nobel Prize win, her second, for the discovery of radium and polonium, would have been cause for public celebration in her adopted France, but for the nearly simultaneous revelation...

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09.12.2025 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained | TheCollector Hobbes teaches us to seek truth, beware of manipulation, understand human nature, value science, and approach language cautiously.

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09.12.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

See What the Original Mona Lisa Likely Looked Like If you want to see the Mona Lisa in real life, your first thought may not be to head to the Prado. But according to a school of thought that has emerged in recent years, the Mona Lisa in Madrid has a ...

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09.12.2025 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025 It is the hallowed tradition of every cultural publication under the sun to, come December, curate a list of their favorite books of the year. (No shade, we did it too.) But at Literary Hub, we als…

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09.12.2025 14:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

✍️ Enter the first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award!

Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition. Find out more and take part👉 bit.ly/488sVeq

09.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Celebrating 50,000 Titles This post celebrates the 50,000th unique title Distributed Proofreaders has posted to Project Gutenberg: A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, by William Savage. Congratulations and thanks to all th…

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08.12.2025 22:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Salami Advent Calendar Polish grocery store Podnikovka is selling a Salami Advent Calendar for Christmas that features salami instead of the traditional chocolate.

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08.12.2025 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history we learn, comes to us as a procession of great, almost exclusively white, men, unbroken but for the occasional token woman—w...

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08.12.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

6 Essential John Steinbeck Adaptations You Need to Watch at Least Once The classics that every film buff or book lover should add to their watch lists.

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08.12.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Spiritual Role and Elegant Architecture of Japanese Temples | TheCollector Japanese Buddhist temples are more than just a collection of religious buildings. They are tangible theology offering us insights into one of Japan’s main religions.

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08.12.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bread, Circuses, Baths: Bathing in Rome, the Public Way - JSTOR Daily By the fourth century CE, Rome had some 856 privately owned public baths, the grounds of which served as civic gardens adorned with sculptures.

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08.12.2025 16:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Join two new Europeana self-guided walking tours - Walking tours in Gdańsk and Pisa Explore two new tours in 2025 richly illustrated with cultural heritage collections

Join two new walking tours in Italy and Poland!

Discover the history of Gdańsk, from Hanseatic city to a cradle of late 20th century revolutions, and in Pisa explore lesser-known historical landmarks on a route from Pisa Centrale to the famous Leaning Tower.

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08.12.2025 13:20 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Kimchi Breakthrough: New Study Reveals Powerful Immune-Boosting Effects A new study uses single-cell transcriptomics from a 12-week clinical trial to reveal how kimchi influences the immune system. With seasonal shifts increasing the circulation of respiratory infections ...

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07.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mumtaz Mahal, The Woman Who Inspired The Construction Of The Taj Mahal She married the emperor of one of the richest empires in the world and had 14 royal children. But it was the tragic death of Mumtaz Mahal that inspired the Taj Mahal.

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07.12.2025 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Flush — Public Toilet Finder

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07.12.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Surprising Origins of America’s “World’s Largest Ball of Twine” Craze There are multiple “largest” balls of twine, and all you have to do is travel to the Midwest to find them. We break down the history here.

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06.12.2025 22:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The best fiction of 2025 The Guardian’s fiction editor picks the best of the year, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count to Thomas Pynchon’s return, David Szalay’s Booker winner and a remarkable collection of short stor...

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06.12.2025 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Linguistic Roots of Words Describing Vocal Ranges "Name Explain" looked at the linguistic roots of words that describe vocal ranges such as soprano, alto, and baritone.

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06.12.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to Insult Like a Medieval Monk - Medievalists.net Learn how medieval monks at Cluny waged battles with words, using biting poetry, classical references, and cutting invective to uphold their spiritual legacy.

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06.12.2025 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NearbyWiki — Find Interesting Places

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05.12.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror Togetherness that’s on the side of suffocating, history that won’t stay put or past, and nature that doesn’t just exist, benignly, but watches and waits….Folk horror deals in dissonance, drea…

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05.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Five of the best science fiction books of 2025 An eco-masterpiece, icy intrigue, cyberpunkish cyborgs, memory-eating aliens and super-fast travel sends the world spinning out of control

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05.12.2025 15:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The best music books of 2025 From an enraging indictment of Spotify to Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie’s account of Parkinson’s and a compelling biography of Tupac Shakur, here are five titles that strike a chord

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05.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The five best romance books of 2025 A tricky age gap, a dose of wedding day drama, literary love affairs, office rivals and the sexy side of Brexit

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04.12.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The best memoirs and biographies of 2025 Anthony Hopkins and Kathy Burke on acting, Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon on politics, plus Margaret Atwood on a life well lived

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04.12.2025 16:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Five of the best young adult books of 2025 LGBTQ+ activism, online alter egos, feminist trailblazers and more

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04.12.2025 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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