His most famous work is (" Unheard-of Curiosities concerning Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, the horoscope of the Patriarchs, and the reading of the Stars ), which was published in French in 1629 ( and translated into English in 1650, by Edmund Chilmead ).

* Jacques Gaffarel, Unheard-of Curiosities, Paris 1650

A box-set, entitled A Cabinet of Curiosities, was also released to accompany the NIN / JA tour in April 2009.

both under the title Collectanea rerum memorabilium (' Collection of Curiosities '), and Polyhistor ; but the latter title was favoured by the author.

The last meeting with Thunders was alluded to in the Napalm Beach song " Longtime Johnny " on their 1993 album, Curiosities.

Their last studio album, Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities, was released in 1995 and was the band's only reunion album to date.

The magazine which was to continue Charles Fort's work documenting the unexplained was founded by Robert JM " Bob " Rickard in 1973 as his self-published bi-monthly mail order " hobbyish newsletter " miscellany The News — " A Miscellany of Fortean Curiosities ".

By 1795 Bullock was in Liverpool, where he founded a Museum of Natural Curiosities at 24 Lord Street.

Ra-Ra Zoo's last full show to date ' Cabinet of Curiosities ' toured in 1993 / 4 and like their first show was in the London International Mime Festival ( in 1994 ), the last show of that tour was at the Liverpool Everyman also in 1994.

The collection inside the museum was transferred from another location in the city and began as a ' Cabinet of Curiosities ' in 1919.

This land consisted of Ann Street which was home to properties such as the " Cabinet of Curiosities ", a clothes shop advertised as " An exhibition for the curious observer of natural phenomena ".

In 2011, the " Cabinet of Curiosities " line was launched.

Museum in Waco, TX with a Cabinets of Curiosities Room named for John K. Strecker, who was curator for 30 years, the museum was established in 1893 and was the oldest museum in Texas when it closed in 2003 to be incorporated into the Mayborn Museum Complex.

Apsley Pellatt ( in his book Curiosities of Glass Making ) was the first to use the term " millefiori ", which appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1849.

Portland is identified in The Handy-book of Literary Curiosities ( 1909 ) as one of the perpetrators of The Great Bottle Hoax of 1749 in which a large crowd was lured to a London theater with the expectation of seeing a man jump into a " quart bottle ".

While in England he was elected to a Fellow of the newly organized Royal Society, to whose Philosophical Transactions he contributed two papers, " Some Natural Curiosities from New England ," and " Description, Culture and Use of Maize.

Whereas John Nichols in his History of Lambeth Parish conjectures that she was the widow of Guy Fawkes, executed in 1606, John Timbs in his 1867 Curiosities of London states for a fact that there was no such connection, and that the Vaux name derives from one Falkes de Breauté, a mercenary working for King John who acquired the land by marriage.

“ Among the other Curiosities of New-England, one is that of a mighty Rock, on a perpendicular side whereof by a River, which at High Tide covers part of it, there are very deeply Engraved, no man alive knows How or When about half a score Lines, near Ten Foot Long, and a foot and half broad, filled with strange Characters: which would suggest as odd Thoughts about them that were here before us, as there are odd Shapes in that Elaborate Monument .…”

* Execution of Frederick Baker, the Alton Murderer, ballad in Curiosities of Street Literature by Charles Hindley ( London 1871 ), at the University of Virginia Library

" Geologic Wonders and Curiosities of Missouri ", by Thomas R. Beveridge, ( second edition, revised by Jerry D. Vineyard ), Missouri Department.

There is a record of a quagga bred to a horse in the 1896 work Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle:

* Walsh, William Shepard. Curiosities of Popular Customs And of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities ( 1897 ), p. 1014

Curiosities worth seeing are the many residential castles, a Gaulish farmhouse, and the Damvallei nature reserve.

* Curiosities of Science.

* As the " New York Museum of Natural History ", the Museum is a favorite setting in many Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novels, including Relic, Reliquary, The Cabinet of Curiosities, and The Book of the Dead.

Various writers have highlighted literary oddities in the " Curiosities " column.

* Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine G. M.

However, they reunited around 1994 and recorded a reunion album, Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities, during the following year, followed by a tour.

After ironing out these difficulties, the band recorded Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities and released it in the summer of 1995.

In earlier years Morphos graced Cabinets of Curiosities " Kunstkamera " and Royal Cabinets of Natural History notably those of Tsar of Russia Peter the Great, the Austrian empress Maria Theresa and Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden.

From June to September, 1908, the British monthly The Strand published a series of ambigrams by different people in its " Curiosities " column.

This included offices, accommodation and a Collection of Curiosities.

New Curiosities of Literature and Book of the Months.

They include On The Throne-The History of the Lavatory, The Great North Road, A Cabinet of Curiosities and The Other House of Windsor.

* T. D ' Israeli, " The Domestic Life of a Poet: Shenstone vindicated ," in Curiosities of Literature ;

Numerous documented cases of postmortem fetal extrusion were described in the medical compendium Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, first published in 1896.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

There was no one but me.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That was another one of those traps.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

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