Why are the Academy Awards called the Oscars?
Presumably they're named after somebody called Oscar. I once heard a story that someone looked at the statuette and said "hey, that looks like my Uncle Oscar", but that tale sounds somewhat dodgy. Is there any reliable source for this, or is the reas...
Right now, the tag wiki excerpts for all of author tags are a confused mess: we really have two main formats for these types of tags that currently exist.
The first is something like this:
For questions about the works of T. S. Eliot or his life as a writer.
The second, which is one the fo...
Post Devdas works in Hindi literature analysis always use the term Devdas syndrome. Like X work is suffering from Devdas syndrome or Y work tackled it quite well.
But what is this exact Devdas syndrome? Is there a exact definition of it?
Yes.
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and The Trials of Apollo are definitely in the same universe – they center on Camp Half-Blood.
In The Kane Chronicles, we can conclude that they are in the same universe, given that there are no less than three crossover stories w...
In the Lord of the Flies, the conch is shattered when Piggy dies. Before that, it was held by Ralph, the de facto leader of the boys. What does the conch symbolize?
After more internal discussion and comments under this meta post, we agreed that ॐ would indeed be a good favicon for this site. We forwarded the request to our design team a little while ago, and they came back to us with the new icons today. They should be appearing soon if not already, dependi...
