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Word of the Day

Florilegium (n., FLORE-uh-LEE-gee-umm)

An anthology or a collection of literary excerpts. It comes from terms meaning "flower gathering," so there you have it: flowers = words. Of course, Shakespeare knew that a few hundred years ago.

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Link of the Day

Hamilton in other places

As you might've heard and certainly guessed, Hamilton won a million Tony awards on Sunday. It's cool and well-deserved. We've spent words on it before, so no need to do that again.

But there are a couple Hamilton-related things that are cool and worth mentioning. First, Daveed Diggs starred in a series of shorts called "Hobbes & Me" where they recreated "Calvin & Hobbes" cartoons in real life, frame for frame. Here's our favorite, the classic "Haircut":

If drollness isn't your speed, then you might want to take in Lin-Manuel Miranda's wonderful freestyle battle with Tariq from The Roots (the album's coproducer) on Jimmy Fallon last year:

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