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Image credits: haynaorno The latter sentiment also applies to the book-reading community itself. While they’re united by a love for literature, they might clash due to things like contrasting ...
#12 Dive Into The Weird And Wonderful World Of Gravity Falls With "The Book Of Bill" That's A Journal, A Mystery, And A Portal To The Mind Of The Show's Lovably Bizarre Villain, Bill Cipher
Now, she’s the author of a book with a tongue-in-cheek guide to living like it’s 999 AD — or thereabouts — called “Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Love, Laugh (and Die) in Dark Times.”
In 2016, BBC News claimed these three laws were "of course" and "obviously" not applicable in modern times (neither confirming nor denying whether such laws actually exist or have ever existed), [12] although a 2006 BBC News article mentioned the two alleged anti-Welsh laws amongst a number of "strange-but-true laws" without giving any hint as ...
The World Set Free: H. G. Wells: 1914 Atomic bomb, [16] nuclear propulsion [37] Atomic bomb, atomic engine Beyond the Earth: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: 1920 Artificial gravity, [38] lunar rover [39] Artificial gravity [d] R.U.R. Karel Čapek: 1920 Robots [35] [e] Robots "The Devolutionist" Homer Eon Flint: 1921 Artificial human heart [40] "The ...
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Annual is a hardback reference book of unusual stories and images. The books consist of hundreds of snippets and longer in-depth articles, illustrated with glossy photographs. Twelve books have been produced since 2005 and they are published worldwide by Ripley Publishing.
John Clute defines weird fiction as a term "used loosely to describe fantasy, supernatural fiction and horror tales embodying transgressive material". [5] China Miéville defines it as "usually, roughly, conceived of as a rather breathless and generically slippery macabre fiction, a dark fantastic ('horror' plus 'fantasy') often featuring nontraditional alien monsters (thus plus 'science ...
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...