Tag: books

November 5, 2019 at 1:25 pm

Chicago Neighborhood Gets Yellow Brick Road Where Author Wrote Wizard of Oz

Chicago Neighborhood Gets Yellow Brick Road Where Author Wrote Wizard of Oz

There’s no place like home

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May 15, 2019 at 5:06 pm

A 1998 Interview With George RR Martin On His ‘Epic New Fantasy Series’

A 1998 Interview With George RR Martin On His 'Epic New Fantasy Series'

Wearing a “Winter is Coming” shirt before it was cool

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April 9, 2019 at 12:13 pm

Dutch Artists Paint Giant 3D Bookshelf of Neighborhood’s Favorite Books

Dutch Artists Paint Giant 3D Bookshelf of Neighborhood's Favorite Books

Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed painted this trompe l’oeil on a building in Utrecht

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January 15, 2019 at 5:01 pm

Woman Forced to Remove Dying Tree, Turns It Into Tiny Library Instead

Woman Forced to Remove Dying Tree, Turns It Into Tiny Library Instead

Sharalee Armitage Howard turns a dying 110-year-old cottonwood into a free neighbourhood library

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November 19, 2018 at 4:51 pm

Beautiful Wooden Bookshelf Inserts by Japanese Artist Monde

Beautiful Wooden Bookshelf Inserts by Japanese Artist Monde

They’re little dioramas of narrow alleyways that you might find in the streets of Tokyo

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March 17, 2018 at 8:00 pm

This Hand Painted Oscar Winning Short is One of the Most Beautiful Animations You’ll See

This Hand Painted Oscar Winning Short is One of the Most Beautiful Animations You'll See

Aleksandr Petrov’s animated adaption of Hemingway’s ‘Old Man and the Sea’, made from 29,000+ frames of pastel oil paintings on glass

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November 13, 2017 at 3:24 pm

Incredible ‘Ocean of Books’ Library Opens in China with Space for 1.2m Titles

Incredible 'Ocean of Books' Library Opens in China with Space for 1.2m Titles

The brand new public library in Tianjin, China opened on October 1st

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October 17, 2017 at 1:22 pm

Guy Finds Joke Book from 1940 with a Hitler Reference

Guy Finds Joke Book from 1940 with a Hitler Reference

Joke #5524 from “10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories” is a good one

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October 10, 2017 at 2:32 pm

This Experimental Edition of Fahrenheit 451 is a Real Page Burner

This Experimental Edition of Fahrenheit 451 is a Real Page Burner

It’s printed on a heat-sensitive material

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August 31, 2017 at 3:23 pm

The British Library Has Fully Digitized 570 Pages of Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks

The British Library Has Fully Digitized 570 Pages of Leonardo da Vinci's Visionary Notebooks

A fascinating glimpse into one of the most brilliant minds in human history

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