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Kings Dethroned
Did you know our Sun was only 13,000 miles distant?Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 25, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Books
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
Are you ever at a loss for words? Then this book is for you!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 02, 2022 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Rhetoric, Eloquence, Public Speaking, and Vocabulary, Books, 1910s
Cannery Row in a can
Created by artists Peter and Donna Thomas in 2003.Info from UW Milwaukee library:
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 17, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Books
How to get a teenage boy
"step-by-step stalking strategy"More info: flashbak.com
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 14, 2022 -
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Category: Teenagers, Books, 1960s, Love & Romance
The New Century Standard Letter-Writer
You might have fun browsing through this book on correspondence.
The section on Love Letters is lots of fun.
Also, for some reason there are four pages on Etiquette, reproduced below. I would hope every lady and gentleman among us would follow these enlightened precepts.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 01, 2022 -
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Category: Etiquette and Formal Behavior, Correspondence, Telegrams, Letters, and Other Written Communications, Books, 1900s
Death’s Doings
Next time you need cheering up, have a gander at this jolly volume, available at the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 26, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Books, Nineteenth Century
Ugly Belgian Houses
A chap named Hannes Coudenys has made his hobby of photographing deplorable architecture in his native Belgium into two books.
Click on the book names below to find them at Amazon.
You can read an explanatory essay by him here.
This is his Tumblr page.
His Instagram page.
Ugly Belgian Houses Book One
Ugly Belgian Houses Book Two
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 25, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Books, Europe
Blue Eyeshadow Should Be Illegal
Paula Begoun calls herself "The Cosmetics Cop". And as such she firmly believes that blue eyeshadow is violating some kind of law.You can read the full book (published 1985) at archive.org.
In 1991, she came out with a follow-up: Blue Eyeshadow Should Absolutely Be Illegal. Evidently her feelings on this matter had only grown stronger over time.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 14, 2022 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Books, 1980s
The Golden Age of Patents
Alex is a master at finding oddball inventions that received a patent. Surely one of his spiritual ancestors must have been Wallace Peck, who did a humorous book that imagined such inventions.You can read the whole text here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 30, 2022 -
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Category: Humor, Inventions, Patents, Books, Nineteenth Century
Sex on an Animal Hide Rug
The subtext in the ad is obvious. Fur rugs, fake or real, are for making love on. It's the staple of a thousand PLAYBOY cartoons.But where did the trope originate? Most likely with writer Elinor Glyn. Her novel THREE WEEKS (read it here) featured such a scene that became so notorious, it inspired some doggerel.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 02, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Domestic, Books, 1900s, 1970s, Sex
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