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Oddities
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Showing posts with label
Oddities
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
Kent writer self-combusts
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In the Dartford Chronicle for 7 April 1919 appeared an extraordinary report of a fire. A local writer named J. Temple Thurston had been fo...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Vulcan 2
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The second part, from the fascinating forgotten work Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts (Allan, London 1928) by R.T. Gould, on the non-...
Friday, April 18, 2014
R.T. Gould and The Planet Vulcan 1
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T.T. Gould & his wife Muriel Found - a fascinating forgotten work Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts (Allan, London 1928) by ...
Friday, August 9, 2013
A castrato sends in his bill…
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Invoices from famous castrati are pretty rare, but there is no reason why there shouldn’t be more of them around. The reason is that some o...
Saturday, August 3, 2013
The Crazy Quilt Murders (1938)
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The Crazy Quilt Murders by H.W. Sandberg (Phoenix Press N.Y. 1938) Rare book (no copies for sale anywhere online) from the Donald Rudd co...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Mein Skunk
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Found in an old Australian newspaper: Maurice A. Hammoneau, of Brook-lyn, N.Y., bookbinder extra-ordinary,puts bindings on books to harmon...
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