In the Houghton Library in the great learning institute of Harvard, you will find a book called Des destinées de l’âme (Destinies of the Soul in English) that is bound in human skin. The book was not the handiwork of a madman like Buffalo Bill from the novel and film The Silence of the Lambs, {maybe) but a donation to Harvard in the 1930’s. The story goes that the author of Des destinées de l’âme, Arsène Houssaye gave a copy of his book to a friend, the renowed French Dr. Ludovic Bouland, who bound the book with human skin from an unclaimed body of a female mental patience who had died from a ..read more

In the Chiado neighborhood in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal you will find the world’s oldest operating bookstore. The Guinness Book of World Records declared Livraria Bertrand the oldest operating book store in the world in 2011. Beware, anything older than 50 years has ghosts. Livraria Bertrand was found in 1732 by French bookseller Pedro Faure, who had a leading printing shop in Lisbon when he opened the bookstore. The name Bertrand came in play when Pierre Bertrand became an associate of Faure in the 1740’s and the property became known as Pedro Faure & Bertrand. To ensure su ..read more

In the Beginning Finnegan was the last one. One by one his best friends crawled into the small mouth of the cave. The extra tiny Oliver was first, followed by the leader and the toughest of the teenagers Peter Salvador, known as Pizza Pete to his friends. Next was the weight challenged jokester with ginger hair that was buzzed to the skull. Friendly, pinkish-white skin made him look like a large tuna fish, but folks in these parts never knew much about fish, it was land mammal country, everyone in the community called the very likeable boy Wiggley Piggly. Finnegan, the big speckled brain of t ..read more

Still doesn’t have stomach or nerve to defy Trump or cuckoo base Believes eating Chick-fil-A sandwiches stops the spread of Communism Suggests Cuba’s current problems are because the don’t have Chick-fil-A restaurants Mad at Biden for not making it possible MTP Report. More as story unfolds further — The post Lindsey Graham Declares He Will ‘Go to War’ to Defend Chick-fil-A — Says a Good Chicken Sandwich Is More Important Than To Protect Democracy first appeared on Mirror Toad ..read more

July 3rd date will connect with July 4th Indepedence Day creating a longer period of national celebration Biden suggests if you can’t find a Gaetz to punch, replacements will be acceptable, such as Republicans with the name Cruz, McConnell, Graham, McCarthy, Paul, Cotton, Rubio, Kennedy, Hawley, Johnson, DeSantis, Gosar, Clyde, Hannity, Carlson, Trump and a few others who he better not mention Free beer and boxing gloves will be provided The post Biden Signs Bill Making “Punch a Gaetz Day” A Federal Holiday first appeared on Mirror Toad ..read more

In ancient Egypt, men also wore makeup. These beautiful Egyptian men of long ago liberally applied a makeup called kohl (a paste made from several different ore minerals) around their eyes with a special tool that usually was created from ivory, wood and bone. Besides making the men better looking, (which a lot of men today could use help with) it was believed the makeup gave them the protection of the Gods Horus and Ra and also had special healing powers to top it off. You can’t beat that! Plus, both men and women of ancient Egypt wore a copious amount of perfume made from cinnamon, oil and ..read more

Excerpts from the diary of Ruth Wilson as read by Gale Sawyer The Trial of Robert Stuart Hammerstein Bob Hammerstein did not have a trial, he was shot in the right ear less than three hours after I met him. If you subtract the thirty-minutes we made love and the two phone calls Bob made in another room of the suite. I really only got to know Bob for two hours, if you don’t count the intense and physical sexual gratifying time.  In the two hours we spent getting to know each other, Bob smoked at least ten Dunhill Cigarettes that his long slender fingers would elegantly retrieve from his g ..read more

What books people were reading in the past is something I have always been interested in. At the bottom of this page is a top ten list of the best selling novels in the United States in 1921, as determined by Publishers Weekly. Of the ten most popular novels of 1921, I have read two: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I am a big fan of Sinclair Lewis and have read most of his books, including Main Street two times. I highly recommend Main Street. Like many of Sinclair Lewis’ books, Main Street is timeless. I can see many traits that were in characters Lewi ..read more

The twenty year old pitching phenomenon Bob Feller promised his mother he would win the May 14, 1939 Mother’s Day game for her at Comiskey Park in Chicago. A delegation of 700 fans from Feller’s hometown of Van Meter, Iowa had come to see Feller pitch and present him with a gift of a transistor radio. In the delegation, sitting in the front row on the first base side, Feller’s parents, William and Lena Feller sat with their ten year old daughter Marguerite, taking in the excitement and the energy of 28,000 fans, seventy times the number of people in Van Meter. The town closest to the Feller fa ..read more

Considering a May 12th national holiday to celebrate personal hero Pinocchio Breaking News WASHINGTON (MT) House Republicans, full of bravado and good spirits, after stripping Liz Cheney from her leadership position in 16 minutes on Wednesday, May 12 for telling the truth, indicate that they will introduce a bill prohibiting companies from not publishing Pinocchio in all written and digital forms. The Republicans still angry about the Dr. Seuss books that won’t be published again, aim to make sure one of the greatest heroes in literature, Pinocchio, will be learned about forever and become the ..read more