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The Story That Started Everything Else: Why The Odyssey Still Shapes Every Great Story

by: Sorta Sophisticated with Pete and AmandaPublished on: 08/07/2026

Discover why The Odyssey remains the foundation of modern storytelling more than 2,700 years after it was first told. Learn how Homer's legendary epic inspired today's books, films, and Christopher Nolan's newest adaptation, while exploring the timel

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The Story That Started Everything Else: Why The Odyssey Still Shapes Every Great Story

February Is the Worst Month - and That's on Purpose

by: Pete & AmandaPublished on: 21/06/2026

February is short, grey, and gloomy - and it was designed that way. From Roman purification rites to Lupercalia and leap years, here's why the year's strangest month exists.

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February Is the Worst Month - and That's on Purpose

They Had No Compass, No Map, and Found Tahiti Anyway: The Voyage That Revived a Culture

by: Pete & AmandaPublished on: 29/04/2026

In 1976, a wooden canoe sailed 2,500 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti with no instruments — only wayfinding. The story of Hokulea, Mau Piailug, and the Hawaiian Renaissance.

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They Had No Compass, No Map, and Found Tahiti Anyway: The Voyage That Revived a Culture