WordPress updates iOS App

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Courage Wolf: Write “Could Of” or “Would Of.” I Dare You.

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Shakespeare Insult Kit – StumbleUpon

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Breaking News in the Classroom

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Ironic Quotes

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Walters researchers decode the secrets of the Archimedes Palimpsest

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