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Young Wizards "All The Wizardry" Bundle
This bundle contains all the Young Wizards material in the Ebooks Direct
inventory. That's nineteen ebooks, containing:: The nine New Mille
Ebooks Direct

The newest bundle at Ebooks Direct.

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 * “All The Wizardry” Bundle
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MRS. DUANE, YOUR BOOKS WERE A SOURCE OF COMFORT IN MY CHILDHOOD WHEN THERE
WEREN'T MANY OTHER SOURCES OF COMFORT OUT THERE. I'M MUCH HAPPIER, HEALTHIER,
AND OLDER NOW, BUT I STILL LOOK BACK AND REMEMBER YOUR BOOKS FONDLY. THEY GOT ME
THROUGH SOME TOUGH YEARS. THANK YOU ALWAYS FOR THAT.

- Asked by magneat0h

You’re very welcome: I’m so glad the books were there for you. :) Thanks for
letting me know.

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thevaultoftheatomicspaceage:

> 1958 GM Firebird III concept car

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robbielewis:


> ART DECO AMERICAN STYLE
> 
> 1. “Mercury” - a streamliner passenger train which operated between 1936 and
> 1959
> 
> 
> 
> 2. The Eastern Columbia Building, Los Angeles (1930)
> 
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> 
> 3. The Guardians of Traffic, Hope Memorial Bridge, Cleveland (1932)
> 
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> 4. The Phantom Corsair - concept car (1938)
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> 5. The Niagara Mohawk Building, Syracuse (1932)
> 
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> 6. The “Neo-Mayan” Art Deco lobby of 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco (1929)
> 
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> 
> 7. “Man Controlling Trade” - sculpture by Michael Lantz, Washington, D.C.
> (1942)
> 
> 
> 
> 8. The Spirit Guardians at the Liberty Memorial, Kansas City (1926)
> 
> 
> 
> 9. The Paramount Theatre, Oakland (1931)
> 
> 
> 
> 10. The Winged Figures of the Republic, Hoover Dam, Nevada (1936)
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> 
> @Culture_Crit

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 * art deco

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fiofo:

> It’s finished! Pre-backstitch, the finished image, and the back :D

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robertbrook:

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gregorygalloway:

> Pride and Prejudice published 28 Jan. 1813.
> 
> Jane Austen’s name did not appear on the book, instead the writer was
> identified as “By the Author of ‘Sense and Sensibility’“ which had been
> published 2 years earlier and was still selling when Pride and Prejudice was
> published. Austen’s name had not appeared on her first novel either, but was
> attributed to “A Lady.”

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hautecouturedresses:

> Zuhair Murad Pre-Fall 2024

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upennmanuscripts:

> floofy-tanuki:
> 
> > somethingusefulfromflorida:
> > 
> > > upennmanuscripts:
> > > 
> > > > I’d like to introduce you to LJS 57, a compendium of Astronomical text
> > > > in Hebrew, written in Spain around 1391. It’s an interesting combination
> > > > of astronomy and astrology, and illustrates how the division between
> > > > “science” and “not science” was not nearly so clear in the past as it is
> > > > today. It has some fantastic illustrations of constellations!
> > > > 
> > > > 🔗:
> > > > 
> > > > [Astronomical anthology]. - Franklin
> > > > bit.ly
> > > 
> > > This is neat, but I don’t think they let you handle 600 year old books
> > > without gloves. The wood and clasps are also surprisingly shiny. This has
> > > to be a repro.
> > 
> > i believe they actually prefer not to work on old books with gloves, as
> > gloves makes it more likely to damage the paper since you can’t be as gentle
> 
> Yes, this! Best practice is handling rare books with no gloves and clean, dry
> hands. Our pinned post talks about this and there was also an article in the
> New York Times last year with more details and quotes from other curators.
> (That’s a gift link so you don’t need a subscription to NYT to read it)

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petermorwood:

> dduane:
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> > ofbakerst:
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > cc: @petermorwood
> 
> Either Mrs Hudson is very good at laundry, or Holmes wears celluloid cuffs.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This habit wasn’t restricted to fictional characters like Sherlock Holmes;
> guess where “off-the-cuff ” originated?
> 
> Right there.
> 
> This surviving cuff shows a scribbled shopping memo (about buying more cuffs,
> which is appropriate)…
> 
> 
> 
> That’s the sort of little memo Holmes would have been making, though doubtless
> about matters more important than shopping for shirts.
> 
> The modern meaning is “saying something impromptu or unrehearsed”, and it
> derives from being able to make a speech, be it political, after-dinner,
> wedding or whatever, using only brief notes such as might be written on a cuff
> as prompt or aide-memoire.
> 
> Speaking Off The Cuff is seen as intelligent, witty, humorous - all
> complimentary words.
> 
> The flip side is the sort of speech that’s just reciting, or actually reading
> from - and being unwilling or unable to deviate from - a pre-prepared script:
> dull, plodding, unimaginative, inflexible… Not many compliments there.
> 
> *****
> 
> There were also tiny pencils for wear on watch-chains, useful accessories for
> any gentlemen inclined to scribble. Some were part of the chain’s T-bar. I
> don’t know if this dapper gent is wearing one, but the next two photos show
> how he might have done.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The more usual practice seem to have been pencils as fobs (pendants), in the
> same way as seals, society crests, lucky coins, the watch’s winding key etc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Women wore them on a chatelaine, along with miniature scissors, sewing kits
> etc. and other useful household accessories.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Returning (eventually) to Mr Sherlock Holmes, here’s another sort of cuff.
> Presently out of stock, but included for interest.

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random-brushstrokes:

> Grace Arnold Albee - Forgotten Things (1942)

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cuties-in-codices:

> lucifer in the hellmouth
> 
> miniature from a copy of “die pluemen der tugent” by hans vintler, swabia, c.
> 1469
> 
> source: Gotha, Forschungsbibl. der Universität Erfurt, Cod. Chart. A 594, fol.
> 124r

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scavengedluxury:

> Busójárás parade, Mohács, 1969. From the Budapest Municipal Photography
> Company archive.

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zegalba:

> > Snake Bridge on Macclesfield Canal. location: Astbury Congleton, England

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forthegothicheroine:

> forthegothicheroine:
> 
> > forthegothicheroine:
> > 
> > > Or I could do this with The Knight of the Cart.
> > > 
> > > “Which shall you choose?” asked the guardian. “The underwater bridge or
> > > the sword bridge?”
> > > 
> > > “Both sound dreadful,” said Alice. “I think I’ll just float the cart
> > > across.”
> > > 
> > > The guardian sputtered so hard his helmet broke.
> > > 
> > > “You cannot ride in a cart to rescue a queen!”
> > > 
> > > “I don’t see why not,” said Alice, growing cross. “It can’t be worse than
> > > abducting a queen.”
> > > 
> > > “Oh, much worse! For to abduct a Queen is wicked but heard of, while to
> > > save he on a cart is virtuous and unheard of.”
> > > 
> > > “Oh, tosh!” said Alice, floating the cart.
> > > 
> > > forthegothicheroine:
> > > 
> > > > Sometimes reading Arthuriana feels like reading Alice in Wonderland.
> > > > 
> > > > “Well,” said Alice, “these are a dreadfully strange assortment of
> > > > objects!”
> > > > 
> > > > “They all symbolize different aspects of Our Lord’s martyrdom,” said the
> > > > Fisher King, casting a line into his teacup.
> > > > 
> > > > “Indeed. I am sure everything symbolizes something else, for if
> > > > everything was only itself I should be very confused. Might I ask what
> > > > the point of the bleeding lance is?”
> > > > 
> > > > Alice regretted asking the question as soon as she had done so, for she
> > > > saw the pun that would likely be made about the word point. Instead,
> > > > however, the room erupted in applause and shouts of “The Grail! She has
> > > > achieved the Grail!”
> > > > 
> > > > The next castle she visited, Alice resolved to herself as the
> > > > inhabitants of this one danced for joy, would be more sensible.
> > 
> > “If you cut my head off,” said the Green Knight, “then in a year and a day,
> > I shall cut off yours.”
> > 
> > “Certainly not!” said Alice.  “For if you can survive such a blow, it would
> > be quite unfair to me, and if you cannot, then I will have killed a man over
> > a silly game!”
> > 
> > “Silly games are the most important thing in the world,” said the Green
> > Knight, “for it is after them that we judge honor.”
> > 
> > Alice thought to herself that if this was honor, adults could keep it.
> 
> In honor of a thing that keeps popping up in Arthurian novels I read…
> 
> “You have nothing to fear,” said the robber knight, “for you are traveling
> alone. Everyone knows a knight may not attack a maiden alone, but only a
> maiden traveling with a knightly protector!”
> 
> “That can’t possibly be a law,” said Alice. “Camelot is absurd, but not that
> absurd.”
> 
> “It is not a law, but a custom.” The robber knight sounded as if he were
> lecturing a fool, which Alice felt was very unfair of him. “Customs are far
> more important than laws, for laws may change, but customs never do.”
> 
> Alice didn’t think that was true, but she would not argue the point.
> 
> “What about attacking a knight?” she asked. “Can someone attack a lone knight,
> or only a knight traveling with a maiden?”
> 
> “One may attack a knight any time and under any circumstance. That is the
> meaning of the word ‘knight’- he can be attacked by day or by knight!”
> 
> With the understanding that, as a maiden traveling alone, she might attack the
> knight and he could not return the attack, Alice picked up a handful of rocks
> from the ground and began to throw them at him. She was not generally an
> unruly child, but everyone has their limits.

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The writer: 40 years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT
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