“Glamour queen Katie Price brought Chester city center to a standstill as hundreds turned out to see her,” reported The Chester Chronicle. “Staff were forced to shut the whole store as hundreds of people, mostly teenage girls, crowded around the entrance while queues stretched as far as Tesco on Frodsham Street.”
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Romantic Zoology
Time Magazine’s 60 year-old review of Willy Ley’s The Lungfish, the Dodo, and the Unicorn; an Excursion into Romantic Zoology.
Evil Kraken. Another mythical beast, says Ley, has really come to life: the kraken, a gigantic octopus that flourished in the imagination of medieval Scandinavians. Evidence has been accumulating, he says, to prove that there are several species of giant squid or octopus which come to the surface only rarely. Ley thinks that Scylla, of the Odyssey, must have been a kraken, with her six toothy necks reaching out of a sea cave. So was Medusa, with her “snakes” (octopus arms) writhing around her face.
Ah yes, how far science has come:
Modern scientists know, Ley points out, that the horn buds of a calf can be transplanted to the middle of its forehead, where they develop together into a “unicorn” (single horn). The bull with such a horn becomes the leader of the herd. Confident of his strength and position, he can afford to be as gentle as a unicorn.
Note that this book is an expansion on an earlier work, with a title sans “Dodo”, but “became a war casualty when published in 1941.”
Sadly, The Lungfish, the Dodo, and the Unicorn seems to be out of print.
Sadly, this doesn’t explain why they are not called “uni-horns”, which is far more logical.
I work at a major stock photo company cataloging images. The majority of the stuff I work with will never see the light of day for no other reason than that most people don’t know it’s available to them. It’s a shame which I’m trying to remedy with this site. As an amateur designer, I occasionally can’t help but play around with the images I see floating across my desk on a daily basis. This site contains the results.
More collages at Schtock.
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