In Popular Culture
- HMS Compass Rose is a fictional Royal Navy Flower class corvette in the novel The Cruel Sea.
- In the adventure game, Beyond Zork, a compass rose is a flower that can control the direction of the wind.
- The Compass Rose is the name of a significant tavern in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar fantasy novels.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
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