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Mystery and crime books, plays and films.
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H1H1
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Diagnosed today with the first H1N1 case on our block! Not the honor I'd expected to receive, but you take what you can get. Anyway, self-quarantined for a week, just to void sharing. Don
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OT: For Mitchy or a RAM anglophile
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I started reading "The Sisters Who Would be Queen," (Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey) yesterday. What I am questioning is . . . is Lady Jane Grey considered an actual queen of England? Do they teach that in the schools on the English side of the great pond? In a book on my book shelf, "Kings and... more »
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Denialiism by Michael Specter
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[link] I just saw this review and I think it may be a book I want to read. I have been thinking on similar lines that Americans have for some time been exhibiting a high degree of anti-scientism. To me it appears that there are two reasons... more »
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OT: '"Quote of the month
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NY State Sen. Craig Johnson (D- Port Washington) "I cannot imagine this trial balloon having legs." Ellen
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NZ Holiday
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I'm going to be in NZ for 2 weeks. Is there anyone in the Christchurch, Queenstown or Te Anau area that would like to meet?
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ye olde RAM experts: copyright dates
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My sister recently acquired what appears to be an old book of Poe's poetry, and she's trying to figure out its age. There's no copyright page, no date information in the front at all. It has a publisher and address, and when she googled it, she found something that said this publisher was at this... more »
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Just Finished: Bartholomew Gill, McGarr and the Method of Descartes
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In the Prologue, set in Belfast, 1971, as the Troubles are coming to a boil, a Roman Catholic man working in London and home to visit his mother, is seized by the British military, held without charges, and tortured. He is subjected to sleep deprivation, bright lights, non-stop sounds of people... more »
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