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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer on bulls, bears, and Dante
CNBC’s Jim Cramer analogized Twitter’s recent earnings call to navigating Dante’s nine circles of hell. After hearing that, we did a little checking and discovered that Cramer frequently alludes to the great Italian poet of the 13th and 14th centuries. … Continue reading
Dan Brown’s Inferno, Bio-Plagues, Quarantine, and Ebola
One of the bits of incidental information we learned from Dan Brown’s 2013 novel, Inferno, is that the English-language word “quarantine” comes from the Italian word quaranta, meaning forty, which is the number of days ships were required to be … Continue reading
Secrets of Inferno 