- Why Do We Know Timbuktu? - News that Timbuktu has been seized by Tuaregs has some tweeters scratching their heads, unaware up to now that the place that's shorthand in English for "anywhere far away" is real - How did this metaphor come about? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17583772 58 comments history
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