Monday, September 25, 2017

I Miss the Old Days

Raquel Welch: The Classic Beauty of the 1960s

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Or Maybe You Do

10 Things You May Not Know About the Pinkertons

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ViƱa Delmar, The Marriage Racket, Avon, 1946

16 Epic Facts About 'Spartacus'

16 Epic Facts About 'Spartacus'

I'm Sure You'll All Agree

The Most Interesting Bugs in the World

Forgotten Hits: September 25th

Forgotten Hits: September 25th: "The Letter" by The Box Tops holds on to the #1 spot on the chart as "Never My Love" by The Association jumps from #6 to #2.  The rest of the Top Five hold steady from the week before.  "Higher And Higher" by Jackie Wilson is up from #9 to #6 and "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison and "I Dig Rock And Roll Music" by Peter, Paul and Mary enter The Top Ten for the first time at numbers 9 and 10 respectively. 

SuperChart included.

25 Books About Teachers & Schools

Up the Down Staircase by Bel KaufmanHigher Learning: 25 Books About Teachers & Schools in Literature: For most of us, schools and teachers have played a big role in our lives. Discover a wide selection of books about schools, the students that attend them, and the teachers that dedicate their lives to educating young people. Touching, amusing and enlightening - you're bound to be educated by this reading list.

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Kit Reed, R. I. P.

Kit Reed, June 7, 1932 — September 24, 2017: Reed was the author of 16 novels and 10 collections, including the Campbell nominee Where (2016), Tiptree Award nominee Little Sisters of the Apocalypse (1994), and Shirley Jackson Award nominee The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (2013).

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

There's an evil clown donut delivery service in Texas

It's National Punctuation Day!

NPD logoNational Punctuation Day

The Bizarre Story of Piggly Wiggly

The Bizarre Story of Piggly Wiggly, the First Self-Service Grocery Store

Song of the Day

The Spy Museum

More Than 5,000 Objects of Espionage Are Coming to the Spy Museum: The trove of cool artifacts comes from the world’s largest private collection of spycraft

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I Miss the Old Days

24 Color Snapshots of Women Posing with Flowers in the 1960s

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ViƱa Delmar, Loose Ladies, Avon, 1946

Winners of the Honey & Wax Women's Book-Collecting Prize

Winners of the Honey & Wax Women's Book-Collecting Prize

How English Was Made

How English Was Made

Celeste Ng: By the Book

Celeste Ng: By the Book: The author of, most recently, “Little Fires Everywhere,” often returns to “The Count of Monte Cristo”: “Right now, I see it as an exploration of the complexities of good and evil and how easily one shifts into the other.”