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Read more about the article Odd Bits: Tulipmania Monkeys

Odd Bits: Tulipmania Monkeys

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:August 11, 2017
  • Post category:Odd Bits

Jan Brueghel the Younger mocked the speculators of the Tulip markets with his cavorting monkeys

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: Paw Prints of a Talking Mongoose

Odd Bits: Paw Prints of a Talking Mongoose

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:August 6, 2017
  • Post category:Odd Bits

In 1931 a family on the Isle of Man reported visitations from a talking mongoose named Gef.

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Defense of Fairies

Odd Bits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Defense of Fairies

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:August 5, 2017
  • Post category:Odd Bits

In 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a book about what later became known quite famously as the Cottingley Fairy Hoax. ⠀

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: The Confessions of Mary Toft

Odd Bits: The Confessions of Mary Toft

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:August 5, 2017
  • Post category:Odd Bits

A "miraculous" birthing unraveled by the discovery of smuggled rabbits.

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: Bone Wars & Derpy Dinosaurs

Odd Bits: Bone Wars & Derpy Dinosaurs

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:August 4, 2017
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A battle to the bottom between early paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: The Great Moon Hoax

Odd Bits: The Great Moon Hoax

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:August 2, 2017
  • Post category:Odd Bits

The frolicsome bat-winged moon men and ladies, moon beavers and unicorns of the Great Moon Hoax of 1835

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: Beetle Romance

Odd Bits: Beetle Romance

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:July 28, 2017
  • Post category:Odd Bits

The exceptionally lovely Edwardian insect illustrations of Edward Detmold

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: The Great Comet of 1881

Odd Bits: The Great Comet of 1881

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:July 21, 2017
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The astronomical illustrations of Etienne Trouvelot

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: Disco Medusa

Odd Bits: Disco Medusa

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:July 18, 2017
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Ernst Haeckel's marvelous illustrations of under sea life

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Read more about the article Odd Bits: Tycho Brahe’s Observatory

Odd Bits: Tycho Brahe’s Observatory

  • Post author:Annetta Black
  • Post published:July 7, 2017
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The magnificent lost observatory of eccentric Danish astronomer, Tycho Brache

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