Tony's stash of textual information

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I'm reading a book, titled “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, published in the year 1852, or earlier.

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The average person in the street seems remarkably ill-tempered and rude.

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I would like to accuse some people of mindless slavery to a neoliberal ideology.

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I heard that the Hindu celebration known as Festival of Colours – or Holi – is scheduled for 18th March.

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Yesterday I attended a music performance in Singapore,

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I have skimmed too few pages to understand the book fully, but one thing stood out:

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Reading the first few pages of Joel Mokyr's book, “The gifts of Athena: Historical origins of the knowledge economy”.

Published in 2002, this book highlights an obvious phenomenon in 2022:

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I thank (a Biblical) God that I no longer have to stay under the same roof as an

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I read somewhere that, long ago, an aristocrat had a lot of trouble in finding suitable servants.

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Where does this blog-post live?

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