Odd Showers, a book published in 1870 in London, is explicitly [the book itself says] “intended chiefly for young persons.” Non-young persons are not explicitly prohibited from reading the book.
Tag: odd
Exit strangely, mathematician
Peruse, if you will, the Rutgers catalog of mathematicians who had strange and/or colorful deaths. Kellen Myers is the keeper of same. (Thanks to investigator Ginny Lewis for bringing this to our attention.)
The truth is very odd, isn’t it
“It’s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think […]
Magazine: Animal Oddities issue
The special Animal Oddities issue (vol. 17, no. 5) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about heads and lots about animals, and oddities, and animal oddities—and much more. The cover photos show four frogs having at it, and also three frogs engaged in similar activity. The pleasing-paper […]