Don’t Call Me Mister

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Doing some research on Rachel Pollack, I found this article, “Don’t Call Me Mister You Fucking Beast”, a piece written by the Transvestite, Transsexual and Drag Queen group of the GLF at some point in 1972. It was transcribed to hypertext from Come Together – The Years of Liberation 1970-1973 by Autumn. According to Morgan […]

Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World

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Our friends at the Public Domain Review have posted Edmund Fry’s Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World from 1799. It contains 405 alphabets from 164 languages. PDR notes that, “To get these letters into print, Fry carved each one onto a steel punch, which could be pressed into a […]

Pre-Christian Temple Discovered at Rendlesham, England

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The Rendlesham Community Archeology Project has unearthed a 1,400-year-old temple in East Anglia, near Sutton Hoo. It was found as part of the excavation of the royal compound, which is believed to be the royal court described by Bede in Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The area was a center of royal residence and […]

World Press Freedom Day Event – Livestream from Bird & Beckett, May 3, 2023

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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 – 7pm Pacific, presented by Bird & Beckett Books & Records, San Francisco, CA WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY “Don’t Hate the Media, Become the Media! How Your Local Story Can Inform The World” A live streamed and in-person event with Lisa Loving, author of Street Journalist: Understand & Report the News […]

Diary Entry: Reverend Frances Kilvert, April 30, 1870

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This evening being May Eve I ought to have put some birch and witten (mountain ash) over the door to keep out the ‘old witch’. But I was too lazy to go out and get it. Let us hope the old witch will not come in during the night. The young witches are welcome. Reverend […]

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