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Curious Notions: The Blog
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Anti-Aging/Life Extension (On a Budget)
- Cool places by satellite
- Today’s date in a whole slew of languages
- Ten of the world’s rarest gemstones
- World’s rarest things, Part 1 (uranium, shilajit, Manni olive oil, heavy water, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar, Château Pétrus, weird currency)
- World’s rarest things, Part 2 (rose alba, agarwood, buckminsterfullerene, superheavy water, buckypaper, Tyrian purple, red mercury, silphium, Semper Augustus, byssus, vicuña, Escorial wool)
- World’s rarest metals (Or, what’s $1 billion per troy ounce?)
So far I’ve cataloged 528 highly rated books, DVDs, a few other odd items in 9 categories
that I’ve either read/seen or would very much like to. Click
the lower left refresh link to see another set of choices. I update the master list
frequently, so please check by as often as you get the chance.
Wednesday’s 5 categories: food, history/biography, fauna, celebrity dishings, science
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- Here’s Isle of Man’s national anthem [mp3 344K]
 - Asteroids: Never a dull moment, Part 1
- Asteroids: Never a dull moment, Part 2
- Free (well, naturally) online Latin date conversion
- Online Roman fraction conversion
- I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome: Adventures in popedom
- Not your father’s world history (19 chapters)
- LIPOMANIA: Lipograms on Monday’s Child, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jack & Jill (plus ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen’)
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Leading travel magazines have cited many of the London hotels as among the best hotels in the world. This has had a huge impact on the number of visitors to London every year. Such multitudes of tourists have made it mandatory to preplan any tour. You’ll want to avoid deals on last minute hotels which tend to be more expensive and more risky when ascertaining room availabilities. Early planning also helps in getting discount airline services.
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- Real-life shortwave espionage: The mysterious Lincolnshire Poacher “numbers” station [mp3 2.2M]
- A clerihew or two
- Higgledy-piggledies / Jiggery-pokeries (also known as double dactyls)
- Martian Curiosities: Water heavily salted can easily remain liquid under Martian condtions. Indeed, we’ve been able to see it down there since at least 2001. You rarely, if ever, hear about this.
- Minority language planetary gazetteer
- Here are all the cheeses mentioned in the famous Monty Python “Cheese Shop” sketch.
- My own personal art gallery
- SpyroGyro: Software I wrote to create polar geometric designs
- Weird word of the week (1/5/2009: Shunpike)
- Long live Benjamin Ferner Beckman! Order of succession to the British Throne all the way to Number 100
- Here is Hoax Slayer with monthly updates by Brett Christensen
- You say to-mah-to, I say hueytecuilhuitontli
- The Pia Zadora/Rondo Hatton connection
- More subtle than any beast of the field
- Hello I must be going: The vanishing twin
- Weave of the gods: The real-life Golden Fleece
- Spectral Muses Revisited
- Beyond gold and platinum: Mokume Gane
- Here’s the latest dope on urban legends and netlore
© 2009 Peter Blinn | All images on this site are either in the public domain, copyrighted by others but used with implicit or explicit permission, or my own. It’s always flattering when people appropriate my articles, often verbatim, but please seek my permission first. Thanks!
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