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Pores
Pores are important holes that come in different squeezable sizes. Love your pores.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Writing back to authority
As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.
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The psychology of Ouija
Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.
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The semi-Virgilian husbandry, deduced from various experiments: or, an essay towards a new course of national farming, formed from The Defects, Losses, and Disappointments, of the Old and New Husbandry, and put on the true Biass of Nature, in the Production of Vegetables, and in the Power of every Ploughman, with his own Ploughs, &c. to execute. With the philosophy of agriculture. Exhibiting, at large, The Nutritive Principles derived from the Atmosphere, in a Rotation of Nature, from their being exhaled, to their Descent into the Pores of the Soil, when duly prepared, for the Purposes of Vegetables. By Mr. Randall, some Time since Master of the Academy at Heath, near Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Randall, John, active 1764.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 46343i
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A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 35974i- Books
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[Charles Porée correspondence].
Porée, Charles, 1676-1741.Date: 2008-
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In prison, Ramble Gripe pores over a document ignoring the harangues from his elderly wife and the sobs of his loyal sweetheart who visit him. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
Bowles, Thomas, II, active 1712-1767.Date: [1735]Reference: 38346iPart of: The progress of a rake, exemplified in the adventures of Ramble Gripe Esqr son of Sr Positive Gripe