To get you into (or out of) the spirit of the season, Mental Floss featured "15 disturbing vintage holiday cards."
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Stephen Fry "takes us inside the story of Johannes Gutenberg & the first printing press," courtesy of Open Culture.
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Atlas Obscura explored "how scholars cracked a Medieval alchemist's secret code."
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Merriam-Webster's "great big list of beautiful and useless words."
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Stephanie Sy-Quia chose her top 10 epics in fiction for the Guardian.