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Monthly Archives: February 2013
The fabulous Fütterer family and 4,000 years on stage.
“We introduce ourselves as the two youngest of lecturers and writers of ancient history in the world today,” write Bernice and Eunice Fütterer in the spring of 1911. They continue, We are nine and ten years old and we are lecturing … Continue reading
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When your fingers cease to tingle, double down, double down.
While I was sitting at my desk this morning and cataloguing, I harkened back to the one axiom to which I cling as a bookseller: research on a book or pamphlet creates value. The bookseller takes an item and does … Continue reading
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Isaac Newton and the follies of “gravity.”
Startling Geographic Discovery. After the most patient, impartial, and exhaustive research, the Earth is found to be not a Sun-supported and revolving Globe at all . . . So utterly false and physically impossible is the popular or accepted theory … Continue reading
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