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Tag Archives: Wonderland-of-Knowledge

Caddis fly ordinaire

Pictures of Herbert Hubert Duprat’s Caddis fly jewellry have been making the rounds of the blogs again recently. Enthusiasm was onto this, ooh, years and years ago, but just this afternoon, whilst flicking idly through another volume of The Wonderland … more…

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Leon Theremin

I’ve been browsing the Wonderland of Knowledge again — the twelve-volume children’s encyclopedia, published 1934 which was the source of the Two Stags image that I believe is still the most-visited post in this blog’s existence, and also of the … more…

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