tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.comments2023-05-31T08:29:46.195-06:00Voyages ExtraordinairesCory Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12141983255020503557noreply@blogger.comBlogger672125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-68227975716971069242023-03-16T15:58:36.180-06:002023-03-16T15:58:36.180-06:00Love them!Love them!Jan Ferrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00377110601621772446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-15097479452212549522022-10-12T02:55:30.704-06:002022-10-12T02:55:30.704-06:00Can’t see the story or any link to it. Am I missin...Can’t see the story or any link to it. Am I missing something?Big Jack Brasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12685412912767965560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-32105575258771722722022-09-19T22:41:37.161-06:002022-09-19T22:41:37.161-06:00Great Historical article on the subject of Tiki. I...Great Historical article on the subject of Tiki. I grew up in the late 50s and early 60s listening to my Dad's Tiki lounge music. Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Esquivel etc. So with that seed planted I listen to Tiki music daily which takes me back to simpler and better times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-47177515614481177852022-05-05T19:14:47.110-06:002022-05-05T19:14:47.110-06:00Page 52 is duplicated and page 53 is missing. Peop...Page 52 is duplicated and page 53 is missing. People who can't wait to find out what it says can look at https://archive.org/details/overlandmonthly02hartgoog/page/53/mode/1up?view=theaterNorman Hugh Redingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532518787129783469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-37325228477713782622022-03-17T20:18:19.419-06:002022-03-17T20:18:19.419-06:00Wunderbar! Danke fürs Schreiben.Wunderbar! Danke fürs Schreiben.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-88842125874689630372022-02-07T18:58:58.031-07:002022-02-07T18:58:58.031-07:00See also Dawn Raffel's 2018 book 'The Stra...See also Dawn Raffel's 2018 book 'The Strange Case of Dr. Couney', which describes how one of North America's first successful facilities for premature infants was a Dreamland tourist attraction run by a showman posing as a doctor, using technology the medical establishment viewed with suspicion. Norman Hugh Redingtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-70278906063982248212022-01-05T02:13:30.307-07:002022-01-05T02:13:30.307-07:00I'm sorry to point it out, but the actors are ...I'm sorry to point it out, but the actors are not Chinese, but Japanese.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18163102853563816102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-80664289487266612082021-08-06T21:31:40.416-06:002021-08-06T21:31:40.416-06:00Actually not a bad prediction, except that the dow...Actually not a bad prediction, except that the downtown buildings in the drawing go up to the river. In real life, the area where the lions are is the park containing the Gateway Arch (arguably similar to the Eiffel-Tower-looking thing in the drawing, although considerably more elegant). If this drawing were the result of one of those 1970s 'remote viewing' experiments, I'm sure some Norman Hugh Redingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532518787129783469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-1638378121996944632021-07-24T16:34:45.822-06:002021-07-24T16:34:45.822-06:00This hoax was probably inspired by an actual event...This hoax was probably inspired by an actual event, the discovery of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings in Colorado in 1888. The discovery was heavily publicised, and featured many similar similar elements: a forgotten but clearly advanced civilisation, caves, mummies, art treasures... The first scientific excavations were conducted in 1891 by the Swedish Academy of Sciences: the ranchers who made Norman Hugh Redingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532518787129783469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-57764877379311856802021-07-08T19:03:10.986-06:002021-07-08T19:03:10.986-06:00Großartig!Großartig!Jan Ferrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00377110601621772446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-12523482238192224802021-04-06T23:57:00.607-06:002021-04-06T23:57:00.607-06:00Curiously, Kipling wrote The Jungle Book neither i...Curiously, Kipling wrote The Jungle Book neither in India nor in Britain, but in Brattleboro, Vermont. One could argue that Mowgli is an American, like Huck Finn whom he somewhat resembles.Norman Hugh Redingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532518787129783469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-20049202907725155712021-04-06T23:53:41.411-06:002021-04-06T23:53:41.411-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Norman Hugh Redingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532518787129783469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-30025108820896589752021-03-12T14:27:18.155-07:002021-03-12T14:27:18.155-07:00Ironically, he also speculates about unsinkable sh...Ironically, he also speculates about unsinkable ships crossing the Atlantic, as I noted at the end of my own blogpost about this novel some years back:<br /><br />https://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/SP20131118.html<br /><br />--Norman Hugh RedingtonNorman Hugh Redingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532518787129783469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-15946010905316532582020-12-20T04:26:15.597-07:002020-12-20T04:26:15.597-07:00The last painting is about : "Les tribulation...The last painting is about : "Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine"Franck Columbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04498985783815416349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-8795286688268291752020-12-19T21:29:26.948-07:002020-12-19T21:29:26.948-07:00Beautiful work.
Which of Verne's works is the...Beautiful work.<br /><br />Which of Verne's works is the last painting about?DWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12545251707763048861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-8508893604095216052020-11-10T13:42:02.421-07:002020-11-10T13:42:02.421-07:00do you have photos of le visionariumdo you have photos of le visionariumswinehartchris3https://www.blogger.com/profile/05122515780927143445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-78667170838389559822020-11-10T13:41:19.206-07:002020-11-10T13:41:19.206-07:00so you have photos of le visionariumso you have photos of le visionariumswinehartchris3https://www.blogger.com/profile/05122515780927143445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-77649883487803656772020-10-22T15:08:24.304-06:002020-10-22T15:08:24.304-06:00I'll keep you posted with pleasure! Ida May Fe...I'll keep you posted with pleasure! Ida May Ferguson is my 1st cousin 3xremoved. This is an example of how interesting and fun genealogy can be :-)<br />Still looking for a death registration somewhere! So far there is only a possible (?) burial recorded from a Methodist Church in Odelltown, Quebec with but a single witness, a 41 year old bachelor from nearby. Found his pic and family tree - Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17201690295124809760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-58170364459871299682020-10-20T16:23:20.630-06:002020-10-20T16:23:20.630-06:00Wow Bev! Thank you so much for the added context! ...Wow Bev! Thank you so much for the added context! <br /><br />That is a crazy story... Now I'm wondering what happened! I take it you've been researching her life? What prompted your study?Cory Grosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12141983255020503557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-67093729107170821662020-10-20T13:16:27.873-06:002020-10-20T13:16:27.873-06:00What a good and fair look at the writing of Ida Ma...What a good and fair look at the writing of Ida May Ferguson. For contest, in 1894, when she wrote this novel, she was a 24 year old middle daughter to Peter Bairnsfather Ferguson who had a plumbing business in Moncton, NB. I haven't found any educational record for her and the Public Library System in Moncton was not created until 1913. This also predates a Moncton English language newspaperBevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17201690295124809760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-84780074130784077452020-08-19T07:18:41.028-06:002020-08-19T07:18:41.028-06:00Thank you for this fine look at Roy's career a...Thank you for this fine look at Roy's career and place in western entertainment.<br /><br />A hospital stay 20 years ago found me sharing a room with a lady in her 90s. We bonded over a mutual fondness for Roy Rogers. She would take her younger siblings to the movies, looking like a saint, but she really wanted to go. I grew up with Roy on television and that lady and I sang Happy Trails Caftan Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936895555808823221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-11161206494649099722020-07-16T18:02:10.480-06:002020-07-16T18:02:10.480-06:00Interesting how, though he upped the ante on speci...Interesting how, though he upped the ante on special effects quite a bit in this film, Méliès still thought in stage terns. He was still shooting flat into a box. Things that one would expect to be props, like the ship's lifeboat, the airship's sponson, and the heroine's balcony, are instead paintings on flats.Smurfswackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807173070389349098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-51112679526908067782020-06-05T15:01:06.133-06:002020-06-05T15:01:06.133-06:00I remember going to the corner store to pick up Pl...I remember going to the corner store to pick up Player's for my folks or my Nana.<br /><br />Things like these cards always stirred my imagination as being very educational and exotic. As a child, I didn't give a thought to the intent or ramifications of imperialism. It was what had occurred and, to my mind, a way of getting know all the different people of the world. My condemning it nowCaftan Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936895555808823221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-41265579997530923812020-03-08T10:30:28.934-06:002020-03-08T10:30:28.934-06:00I enjoyed reading this very informative piece! It&...I enjoyed reading this very informative piece! It's weird to think that now more and more Hudson Bay department stores are closing doors...Virginie Pronovosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12690434044034618183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1418250904027917656.post-67968782328049572542020-03-07T21:26:43.467-07:002020-03-07T21:26:43.467-07:00Not to brag, but I think I even coined the term &q...Not to brag, but I think I even coined the term "Canuxploitation" during a prior O Canada! Blogathon :D<br /><br />But thank you nonetheless! There is such a wealth of stories in the annals of the fur trade... Just reading the first two of Peter C. Newman's HBC books would furnish endless material. It's too bad that we too readily think our own history is boring and shameful. Cory Grosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12141983255020503557noreply@blogger.com