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    Talk Talk

    By Aditus

    Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we? #253 Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds. When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
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MDBCs 27 Nov 2023

November 27th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Acarius of Tournai Barlaam and Josaphat Bilihildis Congar of Congresbury Facundus and Primitivus Humilis of Bisignano James Intercisus Leonard

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MDBCs 26 Nov 2023

November 26th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Alypius the Stylite Basolus (Basle) Bellinus of Padua Conrad of Constance Ethelwine of Athelney John Berchmans Pope Siricius Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)

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MDBCs 25 Nov 2023

November 25th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Catherine Labouré Catherine of Alexandria and its related observances Elizabeth of Reute Isaac Watts (Lutheran Church and Church of England) James Otis Sargent Huntington (Episcopal Church)

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MDBCs 24 Nov 2023

November 24th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Albert of Louvain Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, and other Vietnamese Martyrs Chrysogonus (Roman Catholic Church) Colmán of Cloyne (Roman Catholic Church) Eanflæd

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Thanksgiving... Lasagna?

Every Thanksgiving week for many years, I've prepared a Lasagna on Monday. The reason for this is quite logical. I love it, and have been making it for years. In a week dominated by cooking a turkey, how did lasagna become involved? To answer that question, we must travel back in time to a golden age: the late eighties. The family gets together, we have a turkey feast and football. So, before traveling to my parents, I made a lasagna. It's one of my best recipes and it always turns out

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MDBCs 23 Nov 2023

November 23rd 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church) Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro – one of Saints of the Cristero War (Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church) Columbanus Felicitas of Rome Paulinus of Wales

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MDBCs 22 Nov 2023

November 22nd 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Cecilia Philemon and Apphia Pragmatius of Autun November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians) Independen

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MDBCs 21 Nov 2023

November 21st 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh) Christian feast days: Amelberga of Susteren Digain Maurus of Parentium Pope Gelasius I Franciszka Siedliska Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Of Pride and Power Chapter 12 is live

Chapter 12 Surprise! An Early Chapter before US Thanksgiving Holiday! You did not expect me to go full battle-oriented chapter   I appreciate several GA authors for their understanding of history and military tactics. I enjoy writers who create scenarios for sea battles and squad-based combat scenarios, but I seldom read anyone explore the gritty battles of defense and tactics that I displayed here. Outnumbered 3:1 on the battlefield with inferior firepower, most modern folks would con

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MDBCs 20 Nov 2023

November 20th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) 20-N (Spain) Africa Industrialization Day (international) Black Awareness Day (Brazil) Children's Day Christian feast day: Agapius Ambrose Traversari Ampelus and Caius

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MDBCs 19 Nov 2023

November 19th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church) Raphael Kalinowski Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

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MDBCs 18 Nov 2023

November 18th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abhai of Hach (Syriac Orthodox Church) Alphaeus and Zacchaeus Barulas Constant Dedication of Saints Peter and Paul Elizabeth of Hungary (Church of England) Juthwara

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Of Pride and Power Chapter 11 is live

Chapter 11 I cried for Eli in this chapter towards the end, I don't think anyone was expecting me to take this story on such a dramatic ending. However, I had laid out a lot of hints throughout the story about the truth between Jack and Robert Dudley. They're not the same person, but they possess the same consciousness. Anyway, the ending is something I should discuss before I go into details about the many threads I just unleashed on you my readers. Amy Robsart was married to Robert D

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MDBCs 17 Nov 2023

November 17th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Athens Polytechnic Uprising Remembrance Day (Greece) Christian feast days: Acisclus Aignan of Orleans Elizabeth of Hungary Gennadius of Constantinople (Greek Orthodox Church) Gregory of Tours (

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Short story tie-in for Chapter 11 of Pride and Power

"Your Sins Will Be Wiped Out" is one of the tie-in short stories I wrote to expand the perspective of the universe and story beyond just Eli's 1st personal narrative. I wanted to establish a different perspective and showcase the situation of the people in this fictional universe. We've been following Eli throughout the story, but Robert Dudley has not been heard or sounded in a long time. While historically, such things were common, narratively, it is not compelling to leave a major romantic ch

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MDBCs 16 Nov 2023

November 16th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Africus Agnes of Assisi Edmund of Abingdon Elfric of Abingdon Eucherius of Lyon Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic Church) Giuseppe Moscati Gob

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MDBCs 15 Nov 2023

November 15th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) America Recycles Day (United States) Christian feast day: Abibus of Edessa Albert the Great Blessed Caius of Korea Didier of Cahors Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)

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MDBCs 14 Nov 2023

November 14th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment (Guinea-Bissau) Children's Day, celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru (previously on November 20). (India) Christian feast day: Alberic of Utrecht All Saints of the Carmelites

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MDBCs 13 Nov 2023

November 13th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Agostina Livia Pietrantoni Brice of Tours Didacus (Diego) of Alcalá Eugenius II of Toledo Frances Xavier Cabrini Homobonus John Chrysosto

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MDBCs 12 Nov 2023

November 12th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, also Doctors' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day. (Republic of China) Christian feast day: Arsatius Astrik (or Anastasius) of Pannonhalma Cumméne Fota Cunibert Emilian of Co

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MDBCS 11 Nov 2023

November 11th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.        At the going down of the sun and in the morning           We will remember them.                                                         (click on the day for details) Birthday of Kin

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Of Pride and Power Chapter 10 is live

Chapter 10 There's a lot of divergence now happening in my story from actual history. For one thing, the Prayer book rebellions of 1549 never happened in Devonshire, so Eli has taken all the rebels in and trained them to be part of his army. Additionally, due to the quick death of Edward Seymore, the famous Kett rebellion in Norfolk never happened, which is the battle that helped elevate Earl of Warwick, John Dudley, to fame with victory to Duke of Northumberland. However coincidentally, Ro

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