Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Drones Club

The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a gentlemen's club in London. Many of his Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories feature the club or its members.

The name "Drones" has been used by several real-life clubs and restaurants.


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008



from wikipedia:

James Bigglesworth, better known in flying circles as "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer created by W. E. Johns.

He first appeared in the story "The White Fokker", published in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine, in 1932. The first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels are Coming, was published that same year.


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Thursday, February 28, 2008

A 14th Century Illustration of Vomiting

vomiting

From the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a medieval handbook on wellness.

Wikimedia commons has over 70 images from the Tacuinum Sanitatis.