Yes, it's Thursday. Honestly. Links.

 
"Warning: contains spoilers for Eternals."

2021: 50 reasons I was cheerful:
"John Wyver writes: Herewith a selection of books, television, art, Twitter, journalism, films and just a little music that kept me going, kept me sane and kept me cheerful during what was too often an annus miserabilis."

"Microsoft is adding a new feature to Edge, but you're probably not going to like it. The Chromium-based browser now has a games button, because why not?"

"The manuscripts include the ‘Parashar Smriti’ authored by Sage Parashar, ‘Dasarupaka’ and ‘Rupaka Paribhasha’ of ‘Natya Sastra’ by Sage Bharata."

"Around the world people are getting used to post-lockdown life with vaccines doing the heavy lifting against Covid-19 as restrictions are eased. In China however, a hard elimination policy remains where the pandemic first began."

"William Shakespeare had a son, Hamnet, who likely inspired one of his most famous plays and who died when he was 11 years old."

"TikTok user @HollyBrooke92 says the presents were found by her cousin in her grandfather’s attic."

"Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself."

"April Ashley was one of the first Britons to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
Tributes have been paid to Liverpool model, actress and transgender activist April Ashley, who has died aged 86."

"2002 was a year of change for the British charts. From the genre-shifting Number 1 debut from Girls Aloud to hits by the likes of Eminem and Liberty X."

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