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December 16, 2017 Architecture / Around Town

Architectural Tour of Paris: Centre Pompidou

 Fun Fact: When I was in Paris during my HS French trip (too many moons ago) I saw Michelle Lee

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December 4, 2017 Architecture / Around Town

Architectural Tour of Paris: Carousel in Montmartre

One of the oldest Carousels in Paris is located on the tiny Place St.-Pierre in Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement

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December 2, 2017 From The Editor's Desk / Science

Bonus: “Maunder Minimum”, Cartography, and Hevelius

Earlier this evening, I blogged about Cartography and the Moon, 1647 and Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687). While doing the research, I came across

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December 2, 2017 From The Editor's Desk / Science

Cartography and the Moon, 1647

This Old Map… In 1647, Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius published the Selenographia sive Lunae Descriptio (Selenography or the description of

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November 27, 2017 From The Editor's Desk

Vintage Typewriters

I love interesting images that I can use for the featured photo on the blog pages. I love vintage typewriters,

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November 17, 2017 Copy editors / Friday Fun / From The Editor's Desk / In the News

the lower case: headlines you wish you could take back

  or, “Copy Editors are Important”   Image courtesy of:  https://twitter.com/brfreed/status/929392947161980929/photo/1

November 13, 2017 From The Editor's Desk / Literature

Cartography and World Building

As an early reader, maps always kept me fascinated – especially when I had the image of where things were

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October 31, 2017 Did You Know ? / Editor Notes / Words

Why is there an apostrophe in Hallowe’en?

One early spelling of “Halloween” was “All Hallows’ Even (Even = evening). The “all” and “s” were dropped, “hallows’ ”

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October 27, 2017 Arcadia Coach / From The Editor's Desk

Introducing Arcadia Coach

I am happy and excited to announce the launch of a new venture with Edward Branley, Arcadia Coach. Arcadia publishes

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October 27, 2017 Arcadia Coach / From The Editor's Desk / research / Writing

The Fourth “R”- RESEARCH (Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmatic and…)

Editor’s Note: This is cross-posted at Arcadia Coach, the new venture I am working on with Edward Branley. Hope to

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October 24, 2017 Editor Notes / research

Research Risks via xkcd

https://www.xkcd.com/1904/   For those of you who are unaware of the existence of xkcd, what planet have you been living

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October 20, 2017 Books / Coming Soon / From The Editor's Desk

Coming Soon: Necrotic City by Leland Lydecker

Happy Friday everyone! Just a quick note to tell you that I recently did the editing of the back blurb

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October 18, 2017 Around Town / Did You Know ?

New Orleans, Manhole Covers, and Hotels (NOPSI)

You may be saying, okay, the Book Doctor needs Coffee (you’d be right!).  What is she talking about, and what

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October 12, 2017 Editor Notes / Language / Word Wednesday / Words

Thursday Word of the Day: Lemma

lemma [lem-uh] noun In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or

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October 11, 2017 From The Editor's Desk / In the News

The Atlantic magazine fraudulent job offers : SCAM

Dateline: October 5, 2017 In this scam, individuals posing as editors and executives who work for The Atlantic magazine send

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