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...This sci-fi smorgasbord serves up 9 retro tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana, airlifts you to exotic locales, then rockets you to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows! Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild ...

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...erse with the Skyracos in a retro sci-fi adventure. This action packed ePulp anthology unleashes 5 new tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. They are not for the faint of heart. Things will get intense and stuff on these pages can't be unread. But whether you're a nostalgian, dieselpunk, pulp fan, sci-fi and fantasy aficionado, or ebook spelunker, t...

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...Shapurji Saklatvala was a Parsi from India who was elected twice to the British parliament in the 1920s. A communist and an internationalist, he campaigned vigorously inside and outside parliament on behalf of working people everywhere and especially for the cause of an independent India. A celebrated public speaker, Sak ...

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...gle between a beautiful English girl, an English gentleman, and a half-English, half-Egyptian plays out among the ruins and under the desert stars of 1920s era Egypt. The saga ends, as all love triangles must, in tragedy upon the desert sands. (Summary by Sibella Denton)...

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...f The U.S. military developed a "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan--Red" in the 1920s. The detailed Plan was augmented and amended in the 1930s.... ...pprehended and did time in prison prior to his conviction for tax fraud. In the 1920s, the FBI was not authorized to investigate gangsters and o... ...Beulah Annan, two ravishing and witty women murderers who became celebrities in the 1920s. When asked what kind of jury she needed, Gaertner respo... ...ed around it. Independently, the Finnish Rubber Works took on the town name in the 1920s, having been established there in 1898. The Nokia rubb... ...Al Capone (see our First Book of Factoids) made 60 million US dollars a year in the 1920s. In 1933, Utah was the 36th state to ratify the Twenty-fir... ...28. Various researchers at Bell Laboratories perfected color television in the late 1920s. Georges Valenso of France patented a series of breakthro...

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...rpo- real bodies. This prosperous time continued until approxi- mately the 1920s. Without the method of the Ari, the spiritual world would have been i...

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...Someone from the Gau Headquarters gave me a letter that Goebbels has written in the 1920s to Director Cohnen at Moenchengladbach. He copied on it Pe...

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...letters/AFH.html (stating that as much as 75% of motion pictures from the 1920s are no longer clearly owned by anyone) 16 See U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFIC... ...etters/ AFH.html (stating that as much as 75% of motion pictures from the 1920s are no longer clearly owned by anyone, and film preservationists as ...

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...alah. They said it was too soon for me. Why do they think that? A: Before the 1920s, people did not need to study Kabbalah. Only a chosen few studie...

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...It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...says, Bruce Barton, considered to be among the most influential advertising men of the 20th century, uses history, religion and current events of the 1920s to teach common sense ideals. From Jesus to Beethoven to Napoleon to Abraham Lincoln, Barton uses stories of great individuals to encourage the reader to make the most of life and at the same time to build strong charac...

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...THE 1920s. MID-WESTERN COMMONWEALTH, CHICAGO. “Well if it ain’t that then what was it?” “It was all those damn fool bankers in New York.” “Bankers?” “Yeah, bankers. They’re the ones who caused everything that’s happ...

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... novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.[citation needed] He is most famous today as the co-creator of King Kong, writing the early screenplay and story for t...

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...The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from hi...

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... Helga's restless search for identity is semi-autobiographical, inspired by Larsen's own struggles to reconcile her mixed heritage with the racism of 1920s America. Although this novel was published after 1923, the copyright was never renewed and is therefore in the public domain. (Introduction by Elizabeth Klett)...

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...inting of money failed, because nothing backed its value. In the early to mid 1920s, the German mark became worthless, until a ten billion mark note...

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... three-valued logic in an unpublished note, but Emil Post’s dissertation (1920s) is cited for originating the three-valued logic. Here “1” is used ... ...of the computer programs. Combinatory Logic (Schoenfinkel, Haskell Curry, 1920s) is a system for reducing the operational notation of logic, mathema...

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...portionately exhausting its resources. The fact is that, at least since the 1920s, the very existence of Mankind is being recurrently threatened by ...

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...s were regarded as part of a solution to the global financial chaos in the 1920s and 1930s. Capital controls were widely used in the inter-war years a...

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... know, this area was developed by some early film stars as a getaway in the 1920s. Clark Gable and C.B. deMille were among the original owners here....

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...1879  Lightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and external...

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...1879  Lightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and external...

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...letters/AFH.html (stating that as much as 75% of motion pictures from the 1920s are no longer clearly owned by anyone) 16 See U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFIC... ...etters/ AFH.html (stating that as much as 75% of motion pictures from the 1920s are no longer clearly owned by anyone, and film preservationists as ...

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... increased and its sulfur content shot up by one third. The fields date back to the 1920s and 1930s and were subjected to abusive methods of extract...

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...of Interior) Police units. The main arena of fighting was a recurrent one - in the 1920s, Albanian guerillas, based in the hills, attacked the Serb...

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...corporeal bodies. This prosperous time continued until approximately the 1920s’. Without the method of the Ari, the spiritual world would have been...

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...rope‘s major detriment to the stability of the world‘s ecology. Since the 1920s the French government has awarded the Medaille de la Famille Francai... ...Germans or Italian Americans and we were at war with them too. And in the 1920s many foreign born people who might have communist leanings were expe... ... a woman‘s ankle protrude from her long dress he got excited. Then in the 1920s bathing suits and flappers exposed the female knees, and men again w...

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...and white. He uses ornate captions pages, reminiscent of silent film from the 1920s, to make political points against the background of the song and th...

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...g abuse, the outlawing of suicide, and the Prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the 1920s - seeks to shelter us from the pernicious medical outcomes...

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...g abuse, the outlawing of suicide, and the Prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the 1920s - seeks to shelter us from the pernicious medical outcomes...

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...The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym,then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his...

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...ies before the tribes disappeared under the westward rush of American civilization. Though these stories were recast as children’s fairy tales in the 1920s, they contain much of the old wisdom of a culture which has largely disappeared. (Summary by Chip)...

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...The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from hi...

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...Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, was a writer, humorist and actor of note during the 1920s through the early 1940s. Born in Massachusetts, he spent his early literary career in New York City as an editor, critic and columnist for many of the major magazines of the day. Along with George Kaufman, Dorothy Parke...

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...In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of Human Analysis. She proposes that, within the human race, five sub-types have developed through evolut...

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... of the most comprehensive and accurate introductions to the Bahá’í Faith written by an early American Bahá’í. It continued to be reprinted until the 1920s. The work emphasized the Bahá’í Faith and its teachings as a vehicle for personal spiritual transformation. Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, later honoured him as one of the Disciples of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (a...

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...The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from hi...

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... 39 Foreword: 39 Further notes of interest: 42 1920s into 1930s: 46 Distractions: 50 German Deaths 1918/19 52 The numbers, religion: ...

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...ries set against the backdrop of Irvington, an inner-city neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, usually noted for its fine old homes ("like living in the 1920s") and political activism. The stories reveal moments from the lives of diverse protagonists, ranging in age from fourteen weeks to 102 years. Characters sometimes appear in more than one story. ...