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Category Archives: Literature
May yours be a Joyful Christmas: Robin Myths
The first Christmas robin myth tells us of a fire which had been lit in the stable near baby Jesus’ manger, keeping the infant warm. While Mary had stepped away for a few moments, the flames flared violently, threatening His safety. A brown … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Mythology
Tagged baby, brown robin, Christmas, courage, crown-of-thorns, crucifixion, dead, death, Emily Dickinson, era, fire, genetics, greeting cards, immortality, infant, Jesus Christ, King, manger, mortality, poems, Poetry, re-birth, red breast, red chest, resurection, Robin, stable, victorian
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LA MORGUE – the Seine and the slum cast up their nameless offering to the unhallowed alters.
LA MORGUE La Morgue in the heart of Paris. Like a worm in the heart of a rose. Tawdry, shameless and sordid ; a temple of unloved dead. Where the travesty of human life is exalted. Where the Seine and … Continue reading
The Lilliputian Library – Josef Tari Collection: Miniature Books
Josef Tari is a Hungarian gentleman whom began his collection of miniature books in 1972. His library of petite reads – the smallest book being only 2.9 x 3.2 millimeters and some over 100 years old – has grown to over 5000. … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Children, Collections, Games & Toys, Literature
Tagged Apokalipszis ca. 1998, Das Grosse Tierbuch, humor, humour, Hungarian, Hungary, Im Reich der Tiere ca. 2004, Josef Tari, Josua Reichert: Bilder - ABC ca. 2000, Kovács Sándor 60 éves ca. 1972, Lilliputian Library, Móra Ferenc: Dióbél királyfi, Miatyánk - zsákkönyv ca. 2000, miniature books, miniature newspaper, novelties, Typographia
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The Oxford India Paper Dickens “Our Mutual Friend” – 1920
From Hystoria’s personal library, we present to you, the first pages of the last of 17 Volumes of the Oxford India Paper Dickens, Complete Works “Our Mutual Friend” – 1920 Edition. Illustrations by Cruikshank, ‘Phiz,’ &c. – altered by Hystora
Posted in Literature, Wartime
Tagged 17, 1920 edition, Charles, Our Mutual Friend, The Oxford India Paper Dickens, Volume Seventeen
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Almost Scrooged: How Hitler Tried To Redesign Christmas
In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd. According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned “the cowardly Jews for breaking the world-liberator … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Wartime
Tagged 1920, 1930, 1940, Adolf Hiter, Beer, celebrations, festivities, Germany, Holiday, Munich, nationalism, nationalist, Nazi, Nordic, Pagan, propaganda, regime, socialism, socialist
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Charles Dickens’ Visit To Niagara Falls, Canada
He saw this “beautiful girl of twenty who had been in jail for several years.” She had, he wrote, “quite a lovely face though there was a lurking devil in her bright eyes which looked out pretty sharply from between her prison bars.” Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged Charles Dickens, Kingston, Montreal Quebec, Niagara Falls, Niagara Gorge, Poet's Corner, steamboat, Toronto, train, Westminster Abbey
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Introduction Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to gather berries. The children get lost and stumble upon a house made of gingerbread, which proves too much of a temptation, despite the strange woman … Continue reading
Traditional Christmas Plum Pudding
“In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered—flushed, but smiling proudly—with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.” – A … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Literature
Tagged A Christmas Carol, brandy, Charles Dickens, holly, mistletoe, plum pudding
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A Hemingway Christmas & New Year Flop
…they boarded a second plane that exploded at take-off. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged cat, Christmas, Ernest Hemingway, J Edgar Hoover, Kansas City Star, literature, Mary Welsh, New Year, Nobel Peace Prize, plane crash, suicide, Toronto Star
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