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Postby Té Rowan » Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:41 am

https://archive.org/details/8c0bf9_8db3c30ec0844ea3a75132d11ad1a8b4 — "Awkward At The Doctor – in 3-D"

Wonder if it was written on holographic paper...
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Postby Té Rowan » Sun May 05, 2024 10:10 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73543 — "Parish Life in Mediæval England" (2.ed) by Francis Aidan Gasquet. Pub. 1907.

A lot about how a parish functioned and how it was made up.
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Postby Té Rowan » Tue May 07, 2024 3:30 pm

https://archive.org/details/TheCartoonGuideToComputerScience

A bunch of stuff on calculation and computing, plus a bunch of cartoonish cartoons.
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Postby Té Rowan » Tue May 14, 2024 1:16 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73623 — "The War Myth in United States' History" by prof. C. H. Hamlin.

The good professor is not a fan of the glorification of wars.
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Postby Té Rowan » Mon May 20, 2024 12:12 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73645 — "Home Laborsaving Devices" (2.ed) by Rhea C. Scott.

Various things a reasonable woodworker can make for the home or farm.


https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73652 — "The Whys and Wherefores of Navigation" by Gershom Bradford.

Stuff related to navigation as it was before radio aids.
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Postby Té Rowan » Thu May 30, 2024 1:40 pm

https://archive.org/details/songofsky00murc — "Song of the Sky" by Guy Murchie

Aviation, meteorology, navigation and history woven into a tale of a C-54 making its way across the Atlantic.
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Postby Té Rowan » Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:53 am

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73744 — "The Royal Baker and Pastry Cook"

Maybe there is something here for your Makoto to stuff into your Usagi's mouth to stop her wailing off.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Jun 12, 2024 5:40 pm

https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth (anniversary edition) by Fred Brooks, jr.

Is software project management science or sorcery?
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Postby Té Rowan » Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:21 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74269 — "Arsène Lupin, super-sleuth" by Maurice LeBlanc. Published 1927.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Oct 09, 2024 12:09 pm

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Country-Music-Star-Life.htm

In case someone wants to learn something about mid-1960s country music.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Oct 23, 2024 1:37 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74622 — "The Last Voyage of the Karluk" by Robert A. Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale. Pub. 1916.

Not every ship returned from those Arctic expeditions.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74624 — "The Imperial Japanese Navy" by Fred T. Jane. Published in 1904.

I suppose you could think of it as "Jane's 20th Century Japanese Warships".
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Postby Té Rowan » Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:55 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74675 and
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74676 — "Travels in East Africa" in two volumes by Lyons McLeod. Published in 1860.
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Postby Té Rowan » Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:27 pm

https://archive.org/details/mythicalmonster00goulgoog and
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https://archive.org/details/mythicalmonsters0000char — "Mythical Monsters" by Charles Gould. Published in 1886.
Tales and other interesting stuff. The first copy is black/white. The others are in colour.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:20 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74804 — "Text-book of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology" by R. J. M. Buchanan. Published in 1915.

Not the latest model, but may have something useful for a fic.
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Postby Té Rowan » Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:36 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74822 — "Our Trip to Blunderland" by Jean Jambon. Pub. 1877.

"Long live Carrollus Le Wis!"
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