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Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Monday, January 05, 2009

Lion on the Menu.

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The New York Times of February 20, 1875 ran an item about a very special dinner in Paris the previous December in which the fierce Mr. Lio...
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Monday, June 02, 2008

A tale of tails.

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June 2 ... On this day in 1795, the Northwest Territory judge, George Turner wrote to George Washington. His letter was to accompany a gift...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Camel Stew.

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My friend Marj sent me the following recipe in response to my earlier post today. It is attributed to the Australian bush painter Jack Absal...
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Eating Camel.

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Today, July 30th The Australian explorer John McKinlay was given the task of searching for the lost Burke and Wills expedition which had set...
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Monday, November 14, 2005

On armadillo and hot spices.

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Today, November 14 … Walter Raleigh’s voyage in search of “El Dorado” had gone badly wrong. He was carried ashore at Cayenne (French Guiana)...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Food for cowboys and popes

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Today, November 8th … Today commemorates the admission in 1889 of Montana as the forty-first state of the USA. They breed them tough in the ...
Monday, November 07, 2005

Elephant (not) on the menu

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Today, November 7th … Today in the U.S.A is Republican Elephant day, which commemorates the political cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast for Harpe...