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- Here are all the cheeses mentioned in the famous Monty Python “Cheese Shop” sketch.
- Curious Articles featuring “Not Your Father’s World History”
- Ten of the World’s Rarest Gemstones (illustrated)
- I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome: Adventures in Popedom
- World’s Rarest Metals (Or, what’s $1 billion per troy ounce?)
- Hyperinflation Olympics: 576,400,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars per US$ as of July 21
So far I’ve cataloged 517 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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- 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)
- Free (well, naturally) online Latin date conversion, also Roman fractions
- New: Asteroids — Never a dull moment (2 parts)
- Weird Word of the Week (7/21/2008: Exergual)
- New: Date-O-Matic — Today’s date in a whole slew of languages
- 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.
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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
- Long live Benjamin Ferner Beckman! Order of Succession to the British Throne all the way to Number 100
- Minority Language Planetary Gazetteer
- LIPOMANIA: Lipograms on Monday’s Child, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jack & Jill (plus ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen’)
- Here’s Isle of Man’s national anthem [mp3 344K]
- My own personal art gallery
- Here’s the latest dope on urban legends and netlore
- Higgledy-piggledies / Jiggery-pokeries (also known as double dactyls)
- Here is Hoax Slayer with monthly updates by Brett Christensen
- SpyroGyro: Software I wrote to create polar geometric designs
© 2008 Peter Blinn | All images on this site are either in the public domain, copyrighted by others but used with 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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