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Annie K.
Member since Apr-02-04

Annie Kappel
This profile needs an update badly, but I don't have the time... :)
My YouTube channel, featuring pronunciations of non-English chess player names: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieK1...
I'm 45 y/o, of Transylvanian origin, living in Israel since childhood. I speak English (no, really), Hungarian (great language!), and Hebrew (if I must, which is often, for some reason).
Afflicted with an uncontrollable sense of humor and other highly controversial characteristics.
I learned chess as a child, but had no further opportunities to practice the game. Returned to it seriously around 2004, and have been hanging out here since.
Note: if I am not home (i.e., here), you can probably find me at the Domdaniel chessforum, the SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum, the visayanbraindoctor chessforum, or the chessgames.com chessforum! :)
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<My City of Moscow skits:>
<<<<<<>>>>> Kramnik's Party -> City of Moscow (kibitz #752)
<<<<<<>>>>> Sochi 2008: An F-Files Production -> City of Moscow (kibitz #774)
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<Game Collection: My GotD Puns>
<My favorites:>
All Your Baze Are Belong To Us - L Baze vs T Palmer, 2004 - GotD Mar-21-10
Y Yu No Claim Repetition? - Yu Yangyi vs M R Venkatesh, 2012 - GotD Jun-30-12
He Who Has E Tate is Lost - E Tate vs Y Shulman, 2001 - GotD Sep-22-16
How Many Roads Must Aman Walk Down? - S Shankland vs A Hambleton, 2014 - GotD Dec-23-16 (besides the obvious reason for the pun - a long King walk - note also the terms 'shank' and 'amble' embedded in the player names)
So me the Wei - W So vs Wei Yi, 2013 - GotD Jan-29-17
This Won't Borya Ider - B Ider vs Wei Yi, 2014 - GotD Apr-01-17 (follow-up to previous day's GotD, 'This Won't Borya')
Injun vs Engin' - Anand vs REBEL, 1997 - GotD Jan-06-2018
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<My other (linkable) site contributions:>
* The Player Names Pronunciation Project: http://www.chessgames.com/audio (or look for names with a loudspeaker icon in the Player Directory)
* Created on my suggestion: Biographer Bistro
* The first (now retired) Carlsen Dancing Rook: https://web.archive.org/web/2013040...
* The Caruana Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
* The Hou Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
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<<<<<<< MAJOR CHESS SITES <<>>>>>>>>>
<< Correspondence chess <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< ChessWorld -> http://www.chessworld.net
ChessWorld is my new main chess playing base. It's a rather restrictive site for non-paying members, but one of the best sites for paying members. The full features include excellent interface options and first class study and analysis resources. Nice community, likeable admin. Paid membership recommended.
< Update: while I will leave the original entry for ChessWorld as-is, I have by now been a member of the site for 2 years, and am now an admin there. I still think the site is one of the best, and the <other> admins are nice. :p >
My ChessWorld profile: http://www.letsplaychess.com/chessc...
< Queen Alice -> http://www.queenalice.com
Queen Alice is a charming site - well behaved players, decent admin, site design visually very pleasant. It is also completely free. Unfortunately, it lacks team play, the interface and resources are relatively simple, and it can be frustratingly slow (loading times). Nevertheless warmly recommended.
My QueenAlice profile: http://www.queenalice.com/player.ph...
< GameKnot -> http://gameknot.com
GameKnot is technically an excellent site, however I would not recommend it to the serious player who is looking for a site to settle in, due to an anti$ocial admin with ju$t one $ingle intere$t in hi$ $ite... oop$, $orry about the typo$.
My GameKnot profile: http://gameknot.com/stats.pl?annie-....
<< Other chess sites <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< FICS - the Free Internet Chess Server -> http://www.freechess.org
FICS is a great site to play chess at various faster time controls. There are a few difficulties getting started with it - first, it can be hard to find an email they will accept for registration; and second, there's a lot of site code to learn. But it's worth the hassle. :)
< ChessCube -> http://www.chesscube.com
ChessCube is quite good for fast time control games - provided you have a strong computer with broadband, as the site is entirely Flash based, which means it takes considerable computer resources to load. The site is nominally free, but heavily commercialized with all sorts of frills that can be purchased on it.
< Emrald Chess Tactics Server -> http://chess.emrald.net
Emrald is not a playing site - it is an invaluable tactical training asset. The only problem with it is also the difficulty of finding an "acceptable" email address to register with; but once past that hurdle, the site deserves nothing but praise.
It's a completely free site. You can play (practice) there as a guest, but they recommend registering, so that their program can keep track of your progress, in order to assign you puzzles best suited to your current level. I strongly second that recommendation. Register and always play logged in! It will make a huge difference in the site's ability to help you improve. An issue that scares some people off Emrald is that your progress is tracked via a "rating system", and because of the high importance they assign to speed, if you are not used to finding tactics fast, your rating will be very low at first - and many people are simply embarrassed to play logged in for that reason. Don't let it bother you! If you let embarrassment hold you back from letting the site help you improve to the best of its ability, you are only shooting yourself in the foot, and nobody else really cares that much anyway. ;p
A few of the people I've recommended Emrald to, had dropped it after a brief trial with remarks along the lines of "Oh, it's a blitz training site. I don't play blitz, so I don't like their obsession with speed." That reaction is absolutely wrong - and it's also one that many people who try the site out for only a short time are likely to have, if only because players who are used to being rated, say, 2000 and above, at corr. chess sites, are going to be annoyed and put on the defensive about finding themselves rated as low as 1200-1300 at Emrald, and will wish to dismiss the "insulting" site.
Yes, the Emrald rating system is heavily influenced by speed. But thinking that the site's purpose is blitz training is a complete misunderstanding of the lesson taught. The real purpose of Emrald practice is not to improve your blitz skills, but to train you to recognize dozens of tactical themes and opportunities AT A GLANCE - which will not only save you time in games of any time control, but is often the only way you will catch them AT ALL. Those brilliant tactical shots that can be seen in anyone's collection of "most memorable games", are often moves that will either occur to you as soon as you glance at the position, or you will miss them altogether. That's what Emrald really teaches - tactical chess intuition.
<Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position. --- <Viswanathan Anand>>
<Personally, I am of the view that if a strong master does not see such a threat at once he will not notice it, even if he analyses the position for twenty or thirty minutes. --- <Tigran Petrosian >>
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^ TL;DR.

Any other questions, feel free to ask. I might even answer. ;p

>> Click here to see Annie K.'s game collections.

   Current net-worth: 990 chessbucks
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   Annie K. has kibitzed 8212 times to chessgames [more...]

   Sep-15-20 S Mariotti vs A Geller, 1990

Annie K.: The Black player in this game has been corrected from Efim to Alexander Geller. Thanks. :)

   Sep-14-20 chessgames.com chessforum

Annie K.: <MissS> ah, yes, the key term "I challenged her" - that pretty much describes the previous post too, which was a blown out of all proportion tirade about the severity of the Player of the Day (not the entire homepage as claimed, which I check on almost every midnight, ...

   Sep-12-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)

Annie K.: Note: if you can't see the games, please set your game viewer to pgn4web (in the box under the game score) - but remember to set it back to our default viewer Olga in the end, as it is about to be upgraded soon, and will be the best of our viewers. :)

   Sep-04-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum

Annie K.: The logs have been checked, and the top places are cleared. Congratulations to winner <moronovich>, the other 5 qualifiers, and the rest of the top 10! :) We have opened the Fall Leg, so if anything turns up, betting can start immediately, but we have no official schedule for

   Aug-01-20 Biographer Bistro

Annie K.: <Tab> The WCC pages are tied in with some special functions, and changing them can cause far-ranging problems at this time (remember when merely changing the WCC page titles caused stats to disappear from the pages of participating players?), so let's take this up again after

   Jul-29-20 Ding Liren vs Leko, 2020

Annie K.: Identical to K Stupak vs E Shtembuliak, 2020 .

   Jul-24-20 Annie K. chessforum

Annie K.: A fun conversation from 2016... :) <Daniel:> I’ve come to learn a lot about what sports broadcasting must be like. Actually I learned about it long before CG when I worked at a newspaper. If there is a sporting event you MUST be excited about it, from a business ...

   Jul-22-20 Biel (2020)

Annie K.: It gets worse - the chess24 intro says "In case of a tie for first place chess960 rapid games will be played", but in fact the official site specifies that the chess960 tiebreaks in question are the ACCENTUS 960 games - which have already been played on the 18th, the event's first ...

   Jul-21-20 Csom vs A Yusupov, 1982

Annie K.: The only requirement for this excellent pun is to pronounce Csom correctly. Which means, as "Chom". :)

   Jul-17-20 K Pedersen vs G F Kane, 1972

Annie K.: <jith> thank you for the always helpful directions. :) So all 12 Pedersen games we have in Chess Olympiad Final-A (1972) games are about to be reassigned from Eigil to Karl.

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Nov-04-12		Annie K.: Time for a digression, although from what, I can't really say. Anyhoo - I was rather surprised recently to read in various English dictionaries, re. the word 'snob', the etymological note 'origin unknown'. This was a surprise because I have once read, in a Hungarian novel, a very convincing explanation on the origin of this word. Since this was given as part of the plot, the author didn't cite his sources, but the book was a juvenile, and these tend to take their research quite seriously. So, let's hear it, folks: who here does or does not know where the word 'snob' comes from? :)

Nov-04-12		hms123: <Annie> Chambers <Dictionary of Etymology> gives it as Cambridge University slang (ca. 1796) meaning a townsman or local merchant. He goes on to say that the current definition of one with social pretensions dates to Thackeray (e.g., The Snob Papers; The Book of Snobs) in the 1840s. C.T. Onions <The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology> gives less detail but makes the same attributions. I should add that C.T. Onions addresses the now-famous and highly-regarded <Quack>. It has similar versions in <kwacken> (Dutch), <quacken> (German), and <queckelen> (Middle Low German). Onions goes on to give <coin coin> (French), <gack gack, pack pack> (German), <qua qua> (Italian), <mac mac> (Rumanian), and <rap rap> (Danish). Old C.T. really knew his onions, didn't he? http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/...

Nov-04-12		hms123: <Annie> Is this what the author of your juvenile novel said? <What is the origin of the word 'snob'? People often claim that this word originated as an abbreviated form of the Latin phrase sine nobilitate, meaning 'without nobility' (i.e. 'of a humble social background'). Various accounts of the circumstances in which this abbreviation was supposedly used have been put forward: on lists of names of Oxford or Cambridge students; on lists of ships' passengers (to make sure that only the best people dined at the captain's table); on lists of guests to indicate that no title was required when they were announced. The theory is ingenious but highly unlikely. The word snob is first recorded in the late 18th century as a term for a shoemaker or his apprentice. At about this time it was indeed adopted by Cambridge students, but they didn't use it to refer to students who lacked a title or were of humble origins; they used it generally of anyone who was not a student. By the early 19th century snob was being used to mean a person with no 'breeding', both the honest labourers who knew their place, and the vulgar social climbers who copied the manners of the upper classes. In time the word came to describe someone with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who looks down on those regarded as socially inferior. It's quite possible that the phrase sine nobilitate may have appeared in one context or another, but it is difficult to see why it would have given rise to a word for a shoemaker.> http://oxforddictionaries.com/words...

Nov-04-12		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie the Accurate> yes it is indeed a photograph of the young Vig. Also, I'm glad you liked the Khrozat segment and thanks for your impressions, much as the same ones I had except I can't understand a word of the lyrics. I will indeed read the novel.

Nov-05-12		Annie K.: <hms> Nice research, thanks. :) Yup, that's the one. Short for 'sine nobilitate', used in university records. And I still think that is an eminently sensible theory. The argument they make against it (how this could be related to usage of the term for 'shoemaker'? - well, I can think of a scenario or two to answer that, even off-the-cuff, myself) is weak IMO, as is pointing out that the students used it differently - since the original usage is supposed to have been by the university administration, not the students, and the students' jargon may very well have been reactionary. The term had to come from <somewhere>, and the 'sine nobilitate' explanation makes perfect sense, taking into account the time, the place, the social background and everything. <Jess> thx, I tried putting the pic into TinEye, but it didn't return any results, so I was forced to cheat and figure it out myself. I think I have this the right way around, zeitgeistologicallywise... ;s The lyrics are interesting - talking about a love affair that is "over", and how 'nothing will ever be good again, maybe' but then surprisingly end a bit more optimistically than expected, as eventually she says: 'What am I talking about? It's not over, it will never be over. Stupid.' She doesn't go entirely over into manic, though, but as she repeats the 'nothing will ever be good again, maybe' line, this time the "maybe" sounds a bit more hopeful. ;) Anyhoo, even apart from the song, the opening photography panning over the people sitting around is exquisite.

Nov-08-12		Annie K.: This just in: [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.11.09"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1470"] [BlackElo "1521"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. O-O d6 5. c3 Bg4 6. Qe2 Ne7 7. d3 a6 8. Ba4 Ba7 9. Nbd2 O-O 10. Rd1 Ng6 11. Nf1 Nf4 12. Bxf4 exf4 13. h3 Bh5 14. N1d2 Ne5 15. Bc2 Qf6 16. d4 Nxf3+ 17. Nxf3 Rae8 18. Re1 h6 19. Qd3 Bg6 20. Qc4 Qd8 21. b4 d5 22. Qb3 dxe4 23. Bxe4 Bxe4 24. Ne5 Bd5 25. c4 Bxd4 26. Rad1 Bxe5 27. Rxd5 Qf6 0-1 I have no idea about the soundness of any of it. I'm more than half asleep, akshly. ;p

Nov-09-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Meh, a decently played game with a neat tactical finish. Who wants to see one of those? Give us scary rollercoasters, unintended sacrifices, grown men with broken egos wailing like motherless babies, depressed losers banging their heads on the wall in self-destructive disbelief! Give us amusement :s

Nov-09-12		hms123: <Annie. I wouldn't play <5...Bg4> in the future: click for larger view <6.d4> click for larger view <6...Bxf3 gxf3 7.Bb6 d5> click for larger view <Switch> I did go through your King-march game and aside from the number of mates-in-one available to your opponent, I did marvel at your willingness to have so much fun.

Nov-09-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <hms123> You must be thinking of someone else. I don't do fun. Today I experimented with the WannaBe Variation of the Nimzo-Larsen... 1.b3 any 2.Bb2 followed shortly by e3 and Ke2. Here's one of the "best" games - you could almost believe it was played by the man himself: [Event "rated lightning match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.11.09"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2014"] [BlackElo "1899"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "60"] 1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 d6 3. e3 f5 4. Ke2 Nf6 5. Nf3 g6 6. g3 Bg7 7. Bg2 c6 8. c3 O-O 9. d3 Na6 10. Nbd2 Nc7 11. Qc2 Qe7 12. h4 Bd7 13. h5 Rac8 14. hxg6 hxg6 15. Rh2 Ng4 16. Rh4 d5 17. Rah1 e4 18. dxe4 dxe4 19. Nd4 Ne6 20. c4 Rcd8 21. Nxe6 Bxe6 22. Rh8+ Kf7 23. Bxg7 Rxh8 24. Bxh8 Kg8 25. Bb2 Qd6 26. Qc3 Qd3+ 27. Qxd3 exd3+ 28. Ke1 Kf7 29. Rh7+ Ke8 30. Rh8+ Kd7 31. Rxd8+ Kxd8 32. f3 Nxe3 33. Kf2 Nxg2 34. Kxg2 Kd7 35. g4 b5 36. gxf5 gxf5 37. cxb5 cxb5 38. Kg3 Kc6 39. Kf4 Kd5 40. Ke3 a5 41. Kxd3 a4 42. bxa4 bxa4 43. a3 Kc6 44. Bc3 Ba2 45. Bb4 Kd5 46. f4 Bc4+ 47. Ke3 {Black forfeits on time} 1-0

Nov-09-12		Annie K.: <Switch> heheh! I hope you feel better now that <hms> has shown (thx <H>!) :) that there was a weaker move involved. Although, personally I think that White's busted castle, and very iffy kingside position in that line might even justify the piece sac. Right, bread and circuses! Care for a little wholesale slaughter, maybe? ;) [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.11.09"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1533"] [BlackElo "870"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. exd5 c6 4. dxc6 bxc6 5. Nxe5 f6 6. Qh5+ g6 7. Nxg6 Qe7+ 8. Nxe7+ Kxe7 9. Bc4 Ba6 10. Qf7+ Kd6 11. Qxf8+ Ke5 12. Bxa6 Nxa6 13. Qxa8 Nb4 14. Qb8+ Ke4 15. Qxb4+ Kd5 16. Nc3+ Ke5 17. O-O Nh6 18. d4+ Ke6 19. Bxh6 Re8 20. Rae1+ Kd7 21. Qb7+ Kd6 22. Rxe8 (Black forfeits by disconnection) 1-0 Maybe not. :p OK then, how about something a little less one-sided: I liked this one, well, other than the part where 28...Bd3 should have simply lost the B, which I typically noticed one millisecond after moving, but then I got away with it anyway... ;) [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.11.09"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1379"] [BlackElo "1529"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Qc2 Ne4 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 Nxc3 8. bxc3 Ba5 9. O-O h6 10. Ne5 Nd7 11. f4 dxc4 12. Nxc4 Bb6 13. a4 c6 14. Ba3 Re8 15. Nd6 Nf6 16. Nxe8 Qxe8 17. Bd6 Nd5 18. e4 Ne3 19. Qf2 Nxf1 20. Rxf1 f6 21. Qg3 Qd7 22. e5 f5 23. Kh1 Ba5 24. Bc4 Kh7 25. h3 b5 26. Bb3 bxa4 27. Bxa4 Ba6 28. Rb1 Bd3 29. Rb3 Be4 30. h4 Bd5 31. Rb1 Bc7 32. Bxc7 Qxc7 33. h5 Qf7 34. Qh4 g5 35. fxg5 hxg5 36. Qh3 Kh6 37. c4 Be4 38. Rb2 Rd8 39. d5 cxd5 40. cxd5 Rxd5 41. Rb8 Rd2 42. Be8 Qc7 43. Rb3 Bxg2+ 44. Qxg2 Rxg2 45. Kxg2 Qc2+ 0-1

Nov-09-12		Alien Math: I not mouse race often yet they neat to see :) progress gathers after study of games play, glad others able to help

Nov-10-12		Annie K.: <Hanh> heh, mouse race - good one! But I only play 10 0, which, according to <Switch> here, is such a very slow time control that it shouldn't even really count as blitz. Right, <Switch>? ;)

Nov-10-12		Alien Math: <Annie K.> My mistake, see word with blitz game, first thought was of one minute mess or mouse race, had not think to see the time of games, offer sorry About the 'sine nobilitate' also 'snob' http://www.wordreference.com/defini... <When it first appeared, as a dialect word in the late 18th century, snob meant ‘cobbler’. It next surfaced as a Cambridge University slang term for a non-member of the university, and then came to refer to any ordinary person lacking high rank or status. The main modern sense, of a person who looks down on those regarded as socially inferior, is first recorded in 1848, in The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray. Folk etymology connects snob with the Latin phrase sine nobilitate ‘without nobility’, but there is no convincing evidence for this.> About The Book of Snobs in 1848, http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tha... words show <Originally printed in Punch (53 nos.), 28 Feb., 1846-27 Feb., 1847 as The Snobs of England, by one of themselves.. Published as The Book of Snobs in 1848, with seven chapters, viz. XVII-XXIII, omitted. Reprinted in Miscellanies, vol. I, and separately, 1855. The missing chapters were restored in the Library edition, vol. XXIII.> Word history are neat to read, hope not mind

Nov-10-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Yes, 10 0 is a snail race :) <Annie K.: Right, bread and circuses! Care for a little wholesale slaughter, maybe? ;)> That would be amphitheatres :) The game does remind me of the old classic <Lions vs. Christians>, with extra lions and particularly meek Christians. Your opponent was certainly guilty of any number of crimes against chess, so seeing him torn to shreds should please the populace :)

Nov-11-12		Annie K.: <Hanh> No worries. :) <<...but there is no convincing evidence for this.> Word history are neat to read, hope not mind> Agreed, and I don't mind, but I remain unconvinced by their lack of conviction. :p <Switch> At this rate, we'll have a whole zoo here soon. :D

Nov-11-12		Annie K.: ...and totally off-topic, the Caruana - Topalov game today was breathtaking. Whoever next says something about draws being boring, needs to be shot, hung, drawn and quartered. In some order. Except you can't really effectively draw a person after quartering them, so these two need to be viewed as a unit, for our purposes. Just saying. :p

Nov-12-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Thanks for the tip, I added it to Game Collection: Uneventful, everyday, dull draws :) Back in the good old days, you <could> draw a person after quartering them... well, at least in the first two Monte Carlo tournaments :)

Nov-12-12		Annie K.: <Switch> heh, I was thinking in rather less civilized terms. ;) Cute collection - I'll go over it by and by. May I also recommend Topalov vs Judit Polgar, 2005 for it? :)

Nov-13-12		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> That's wonderful news on the TOP SECRET books that only you can read. Good eye to spot them when they came up, as you said you'd do. There was some action today on the <Gyula Breyer's Ice Cream> page that reminded me of your coup- mysterious missing book references that only Hungarians can read. Hungarians refuse to translate their own chess books, which I find admirable. I suspect Magyar has a Google-translate resistant code in it as well, which was pretty farsighted of them if you think about it.

Nov-13-12		Annie K.: <Jess> yep, I remember planning this, idly, while the mammoths grazed... :)

Nov-13-12		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> possibly one of the reasons we have the opportunity to be joyful about this is the curious, and convenient fact, that to do chess history properly it should be done slowly. This fits perfectly with your forum header.

Nov-14-12		Thanh Phan: A tour through fb brought me to <The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries)> book, http://www.amazon.com/The-Invisible... it looks interesting and wondered if you have read it? The plot or notes from the book are; Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the letter's recipient, he becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his—and his family’s—history. From the small Hungarian town of Konyár to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in labor camps, The Invisible Bridge tells the story of a family shattered and remade in history’s darkest hour.

Nov-14-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Added. Thanks :)

Nov-17-12		Thanh Phan: Found some articles I thought were interesting, 19 Old-Timey Slang Terms to Bolster Your Vocabulary http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/ar... 22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don’t Know http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/ar... And the rest of the site has more random articles: http://www.mentalfloss.com/

Nov-18-12		Annie K.: <Switch> you're welcome. Very cute collection - I just had time to play through it. :) <Thanh> thanks. :) I don't know that book - I rarely read that sort of thing. <Jess> very correctly pointed out! Unfittingly, however, the books are <already here>. Am I going to have to read them now? ;s

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