Month: February 2015
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The War with the Ottoman Empire
The Great War looms very large in Australian society and culture, something which the commemoration of the centenary years emphasises but certainly didn’t create. Some of the stories about the Great War are ill-informed, prone to sentimentality and dominated by myths and popular beliefs. Australia’s part in the war with the Ottomans exemplifies these tendencies…
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Which classic have you always wanted to read?
To celebrate the launch of a new reading group, the Oxford World’s Classics team asked staff in Oxford offices around the world – which Oxford World’s Classic have you always wanted to read? [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaf9IbXBiE&w=560&h=315] And it got us talking here in the office; were we prepared to answer that question? Were any of us prepared to admit…
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Oxford Word of the Month – February: Eggshell blonde
Eggshell blonde – noun: (also eggshell blond) a man with a bald head. Three Polished Gentlemen. Never before in the history of Sale have so many ‘egg-shell blonds’ graced the business side of a bar than when three perfect specimens dispensed good cheer at a Sale hostelry t’other afternoon. Two, up from Melbourne, were assisting…