Mental Floss offered "10 fascinating facts about the thesaurus for National Thesaurus Day," which was January 18, and the New York Public Library challenged: "Can you ace our synonym quiz?"
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Bestselling author Lee Child is retiring and his brother, Andrew Grant, will be continuing the Jack Reacher series, the Guardian reported.
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Jora Vision will design a new Russian theme park inspired by the literary poems and fairy tales of Alexander Pushkin, according to CLAD News.
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Alastair Johnston is donating his 30,000-volume collection of golf books to the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in Scotland, Golfworld reported.
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"Famous candies from literature" were sampled by Quirk Books.