I was looking for something in the shed and found this instead. (Actually I found a TON of very cool things that I own but don't have room for in the cottage, but anyway...)
I did a little research and apparently this is the first book in the short series of Columbo tie-in books. What's weird is that mine is hardback but I can't find it listed as a hardback anywhere. On the back it actually says "First Time in Paperback". Maybe it was made for libraries.
Anyway, here's today's cool thing.
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British gay/bi male writers and their social circles
As a great admirer of gay literature, the social circles of gay and bisexual male writers is something that piques my interest. Due to the dangerousness of the matter in the past and also because it revolves around a relatively small niche, it seems that there was high level familiarity between these figures. The United Kingdom, a country whose literary input has abundant homoerotic tones, is a very adequate setting to analyze such a configuration.
I've been building a graph on this subject for some time, and now it seems mature enough for me to post it. It's a diagram based on friendship connections — deep or superficial —, although romantic and family-related connections are also included. Just a mutual recognition of existence isn't enough to justify a connection (otherwise most of them would be linked to Wilde!), and rivalries were not considered too. All the writers included were born during the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1837-1910), where this interconnectivity seemed particularly strong.
This is just an early version, as I imagine there is still a considerable amount of information that I missed. Therefore, I'm very open to suggestions and comments on it!
(Three Irishmen were also included in the diagram: Stoker, Wilde and Reid)
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Happy 94th, Tippi Hedren.
1962 photo by Lawrence Schiller.
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Alfred Kingsley Lawrence - Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams (1950)
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The term “Middle East” itself is rooted in Eurocentrism, as it references the region's location relative to Europe rather than its actual geographical location.
The term "Middle East" may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office. However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to "designate the area between Arabia and India"
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Bloopers from the show Ladies Man. Not much but I’ve never seen those before.
Also on Dailymotion
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In 1936, archeological Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr was recruited by the government to find and retrieve the biblical Ark of the Covenant before the Nazi’s could during Hitler’s drive to find religious artifacts to aid him in winning World War II. (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flm)
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"laios fans are down bad" you gave me an insane autistic blond dude in armor of course im down bad. i have a body pillow of solaire of astora you could not have created a character more catered to me if you got daniel flynn to voice him.
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A few days ago I watched Oppenheimer with my friend without knowing what the movie was about.
The first memorable scene for me was, actually, when Dr. Lawrence was shown at the screen. There's just something in him that made him look very attractive.
But overall the movie was great. For someone who didn't know much about the subject before, it kept me awake and focused on the plot.
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12 settembre … ricordiamo …
12 settembre … ricordiamo …
#semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic
2021: Fran Bennett, attrice statunitense. (n.1937)
2020: Barbara Jefford, attrice inglese. E’ stata sposata con Terence Longdon e con l’attore John Turner. (n. 1930)
2015: Vittoria Piancastelli, Vittoria Piancastelli Tracquilio, attrice italiana. (n. 1966)
2014: Donald Sinden, Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, è stato un attore cinematografico, teatrale e televisivo britannico. (n. 1923)
2010: Claude…
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Surprisingly few elements have been named after people; at present, only 15 people have been immortalised on the periodic table, and they are listed in table 1.4.
"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.
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Alfred Kingsley Lawrence - "The birth of Venus"
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Theater Nerds
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