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Ever notice how a simple shift from "You make me angry" to "I feel angry when..." can change a whole…
Journey back in time to uncover Siyakat, the secret script of the Ottoman Empire. This deliberately complex and stylized writing…
While the Navajo are rightly famous, the Comanche Code Talkers of WWII's European Theater created an equally unbreakable code. Based…
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