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  • Columbus'd The Whim will be the first full-length album from the band.

    My Old Kentucky Blog 2009

  • In fact, it was on his schooner the "Whim" that Paul and I had picked up what we knew about boat-sailing, and now that the Mist was ours, we were hard at work adding to our knowledge.

    To Repel Boarders 1902

  • By Piano Table « Whim & Wanderlust on March 3, 2010 at 1: 59 am

    House of Georg Spreng by C18 Architects 2010

  • He considers pleasure an essential element of reading, and believes we will find more of it if we "Read at Whim."

    The Whimsical Reader Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • In fact, it was on his schooner, the Whim, that Paul and I had picked up what we knew about boat-sailing, and now that the Mist was ours, we were hard at work adding to our knowledge.

    To Repel Boarders 2010

  • Mr. Jacobs's concept of Whim which, over the course of the book, appears frequently enough that it starts gradually to remind one of laundry detergents such as Joy or Cheer is ultimately an exhortation to know ourselves.

    The Whimsical Reader Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • Yet in the context of the list culture that Mr. Jacobs indicts, Whim does provide a valuable service.

    The Whimsical Reader Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • These figures—with their questions, ceremonies, enthusiasms and doubts—reside in all of us when we read seriously, whether guided by list or love, by whim or Whim.

    The Whimsical Reader Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • Its 10-year history includes the failure of Copper, a bistro, followed by the 2004 shuttering of Whim, a seafood spot that reportedly featured a raw oyster bar fashioned from a shower curtain and an ice-filled keg. The owner of Cielo Café, according to a Time Out New York review, simultaneously served as cook, bartender and waitress; the venture lasted less than a year.

    Don't Mention the 'Curse' Anne Kadet 2011

  • But Whim is something very different: it can guide us because it is based in self-knowledge.

    The Whimsical Reader Abigail Deutsch 2011

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  • "Theoretical calculations suggest these gaseous threads, known as the warm–hot intergalactic medium, or the Whim, ought to be around a million degrees celsius. " - Guardian article : Astronomers find half of the missing matter in the universe

    February 11, 2018