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Pure Items

• Pointing
• Public Universal Friend
• Cultural Depictions of Turtles
• Contrastive Focus Reduplication

Good Lists

• List of Monarchs by Nickname
• List of bioluminescent fungus species
• List of lists of lists
• List of colossal sculpture in situ
• List of sigils of demons

Just Good Stuff To Know About

Surprisingly Deep Articles

• Alfred E. Neuman
• Time immemorial
• Ceremonial ship launching

Beneath the Earth

• Derinkuyu underground city
• Mary King's Close

Minor Items

Things that are funny or interesting, but not good enough shit to really be heartily classed That Good Shit

• Herma
• Zonule of Zinn
• Cad Goddeu - "The Battle of the Trees"
• Petrosphere

Minerology

Key articles to unlocking mineral knowledge.

• Corundum
• Quartz
• Beryl

Geography

• Barrier island
• Hoodoo

Polyhedra

• The Platonic Solids - The Classic Ones
• The Archimedean Solids - The Nerd Ones
• The Johnson Solids - The Hipster Ones

Fractals

• The Mandelbrot Set - The One Everyone's Heard Of
• The Koch Snowflake - The One You Do In Geometry Class
• The Sierpiński Triangle - The One You Explain As Being Like The Triforce

Stars

• Octagram
• Hexagram
• ...and Stellations
  • Stellated octahedron, also known as the "stella octangula"

Eclectic Specifics

Less about linguistics in general, more about linguistic phenomena.

Words

• Eggcorn - "all intensive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes"
• Mondegreen - "Laid him on the green" / "Lady Mondegreen"

Phrases

• Hendiadys - "Rainy Weather" -> "Rain and Weather"
• Kenning - "Ribcage" -> "Bone House"
• Contrastive Focus Reduplication - "chicken salad, not salad salad"
• Zeugma and Syllepsis - "You held your breath and the door for me."

• Kunstformen der Natur, lithographs by Ernst Haeckel

Wikipedia Articles Whose Titles Are Sentences

• Who is a Jew?
• Workers of the world, unite!
  • Many more of this ilk can be found in the List of political slogans

Coma

• Coma
  • Awareness
  • Wakefulness
  • Dream Argument