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  1. scotrace

    Antique Miniature Mahjong Set (Ca. 1900)

    It's in the Classified section - is it for sale? (NICE set)
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    Today in History

    February 27, 1942, the birthday of Jimi Hendrix. Also the anniversary of the death of Louis Vuitton, 1892. His brand survives.
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    Today in History

    Feb. 23 is the annivsary of the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima, 1945. It is also the anniversary of the appearance of the Gutenberg Bible, in 1455. It is the first book printed with moveable type, and it changed everything.
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    The Highwaymen-new Netflix Movie, chasing Bonnie & Clyde.

    The trailer was released yesterday. Looks like plenty of great backgrounds, if nothing else.
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    Today in History

    Feb 20--Today is the birthday of Kurt Cobain, 1967. The Soviets launched the Mir spacecraft in 1986. John Glenn, who lived a few miles from where I sit and who my wife, from the same town, knew and spoke to several times, orbited the earth in 1962. New York City, 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of...
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    Today in History

    In 2001, Dale Earnhardt bit the wall a Daytona and died on the scene. He was 49.
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    Today in History

    Feb 14 is the anniversary of the launch of YouTube (2005), where we learn how to replace the taillight bulb in the car, watch last night's Stephen Colbert, and find 1920s jazz recordings we would likely never hear otherwise. Of course, there was a famous massacre on this day in 1929, as...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Love! Mrs. Maisel! Enjoying season two and the expanded roles for the parents. It all just works.
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    Today in History

    Feb. 12, 1809 - also the birth date of Charles Darwin, later author of On The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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    Vintage Firearms

    Turns out my wife inherited her grandfather's Ruger Security Six (6"). It's really sweet and all but perfect--but her mother won't let her have it!
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    Vintage Firearms

    Wow! How did you come to part with them?
  14. scotrace

    Casablanca Version: "Perfidia." Where to find?

    If I remember correctly, the link leads to a version different from the one in the film. I've still never found it, almost eleven years later.
  15. scotrace

    Nostalgic for the Fedora Lounge!

    Nice to see your lovely self hanging around. :)
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    The Hat Check Vampires: 1943

    Hat Check Girl: Another lost 20th century job.
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    Today in History

    The Tube opens for business in London in 1863. In 1920 (I'm surprised so late), the treaty of Versailles "officially" ends WWI. Though it wasn't fully resolved until the reunified Germany made its last reparation payment in Oct 3, 2010. Seven years later, Jan. 10, 1927, Metropolis was released...
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    Today in History

    Birthdays: The already mentioned Stephen Hawking. Elvis. David Bowie.
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    Today in History

    J. R. R. Tolkien, professor, inventor of languages and universes, was born in 1892. In 1521, the priest Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Catholic church by Pope Leo X. The Brooklyn Bridge construction project got underway in 1870. And Apple Computer turns 41.
  21. scotrace

    Old-style Iron On Transfers

    I hope someone does, because I'd also like to know.
  22. scotrace

    Cummins Initial Machine

    Fascinating! Anything mechanical is right up my alley.
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    Today in History

    1901: Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal. 1915: Frank Sinatra is born.

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