As you know, the theme of this week is Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens\u00a0was an English writer and social critic. Here are several interesting facts about him:<\/p>\n

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• His name \u201cDickens\u201d was a curse, possibly invented by Shakespeare – Instead of saying, \u201cWhat the devil?\u201d as a profanity, people exclaimed, \u201cWhat the dickens?\u201d The first usage of that word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was William Shakespeare\u2019s The Merry Wives of Windsor;<\/li>\n
• In 1846 Dickens co-founded Urania Cottage, a home for the redemption of \u201cfallen\u201d women where accepted candidates could learn skills, often domestic, to read and write and re-integrate into society;<\/li>\n
• Dickens was keenly interested in the paranormal, and has even been linked to the famous paranormal investigation group \u201cThe Ghost Club\u201d of London;<\/li>\n
• In his study he had a secret door which was designed like a bookcase filled with fake books rumored to include titles like Noah\u2019s Arkitecture and a nine-volume set titled Cat\u2019s Lives;<\/li>\n
• The Oxford English Dictionary credits him with the first use of butter-fingers, crossfire, dustbin, fairy story, slow-coach, and whoosh. He also gets the credit for \u2018boredom\u2019 in the Oxford English Dictionary, coined in his novel Bleak House (1852-3), but this has since been traced back even earlier, to 1830;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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