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Dave Wilton

21 Mar 2025 • 6 min read
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B&W photo of a cat in a winged viking helmet and scale-mail breastplate, with the caption “Brünnhilde"

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nonesuch

12 October 2026 A nonesuch, or nonsuch, is something that is unparalleled, without equal. The word, rare today, dates to the sixteenth century, although the use of a negated such, as in no such, goes back to Old English. The nominal use of nonesuch stems from Nonsuch Palace, a grand
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Black Death

9 October 2026 The Black Death was a pandemic caused by plague (Yersinia pestis) that raged through Europe and the Middle East from 1346–53. In that brief period it killed as many as fifty million people, that is around half the population of Europe and a third of those
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