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Does anyone own the Tall Tarzan Gift Shelf? It's a collection of a couple dozen 60s-era Burroughs Ballantine paperbacks in two cardboard cases, each ~ 5" x 15", with two tiers. There's a pic of the spine at the bottom of
this page (which incorrectly lists the set as one case of 20 books). I'm trying to figure out how many and which titles were originally included in the full set of two cases.
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at 5:50 PM on June 26, 2008
When was the last time scholars discovered a previously unknown piece of literature from ancient Greece or Rome? Has it happened at all in modern times? If you were to speculate on the chances we'll ever rediscover another play from Euripides, Sophocles, et al, are there any relatively recent discoveries of new works from ancient Greek and Roman authors you could use as examples?
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at 5:20 PM on May 19, 2008
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Seasonal allergy relief: I've read a bunch of the previous questions, but was wondering about allergy medicines that have gone prescription to over-the-counter or brand-name to generic since last spring. I know there's a
generic Zyrtec now, but was wondering if there are any others that might be more affordable/available than they were last spring.
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at 10:33 PM on February 7, 2008
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A crate of homegrown turnips showed up in my life yesterday. I've never cooked with turnips before (hell, I don't recall ever eating them before). Do you have any particularly delicious ways of using turnips? I know I can treat them like
mashed potatoes, which sounds good.
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at 7:17 PM on January 10, 2008
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Maxime, si tu vis, cupio contendere tecum. Need help translating this "detestable Latin hexameter" (well, that's what the
1911 Britannica called it, anyway).
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at 11:17 AM on December 16, 2007
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I'm gonna be in Asheville next week starting Wed, Oct 24 through Tues, Oct 30 if any interested Mefites want to get together. Anyone looking for an excuse to go for a day hike to some waterfalls (or something equally breathtaking) is especially encouraged. :)
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at 6:23 PM on October 18, 2007
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It's July, I'm in central North Carolina (Zone 7 or 8 depending who you ask), and I have an unused, mostly shaded 3' x 6' dirt plot at the side of our front lawn that I'd love to put some color in to brighten the neighborhood. What can I plant there now that'll give me the most color through the fall? Annual or perennial, bonus points for drought-tolerant but that's not essential).
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at 11:07 AM on July 2, 2007
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Parting the Veil of Faery:
The Colmore Fatagravures, said to date from the 1890s. "A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named
Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of '...parting the veil of Faery...' The device, which he called the Spectobarathrum, along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire. I believe some of these images and related artefacts may have survived."
[via Apothecary's Drawer]
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at 9:43 PM on June 19, 2007
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Grass rings,
lace rings,
rock rings,
bunny rings...
The Carrotbox has
month after
month of posts about
odd and unusual rings. Alice is
allergic to metal so focuses in her
own collection on "glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite and even stone — anything, as long as it's not metal!" She even provides a
timeline of
plastic history.
[via FunForever]
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at 5:54 PM on June 18, 2007
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An
informative, gossipy and surprisingly engaging 6-page exploration of the life of Charles Dickens, including his
up-and-down relationship with the U.S. press, his
inexcusable behavior during his messy and very public separation from his wife, the
"histrionic flair" of his performance career, and, of course, his works, including the one George Bernard Shaw called "a more seditious book than
Das Kapital." Lots of interesting images, too.
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at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2007
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Somewhere deep inside a fractal....
Bizarre, nonlogical, glitchy cartoons that are "
not ashamed of coming out of a computer." Satire? Or serious attempt to point animators away from "cushioned, balletic movements" and traditional stories, and towards "an aesthetic which adopts the native idiosyncrasies and flaws of the software in which it was born"?
(Note: the 'PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THESE CARTOONS IF YOU SUFFER FROM PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY' applies mainly to the flashing intros, forward through the first 25 seconds in each cartoon and there's other stuff.) [via]
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at 8:59 PM on March 1, 2007
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Have you ever been able to get someone who constantly, tunelessly whistles to themselves to stop?
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at 7:45 PM on February 22, 2007
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