What a wonderful surprise it was for me yesterday when George came home with one of these ...
Now, the one that he brought home isn’t exactly the same as the one pictured above, but it is still a “Stove-Top Espresso Maker” nevertheless. They all have basically the same look and feel. I have wanted one for quite some time after being turned onto them by my sister-in-law once in Nashville. I think that she discovered them years ago while living in Europe. These things make incredible coffee! Plus, there’s just something so, Parisian about them. And I must admit, after my visit there a few years ago, I could be happy livening in a cardboard box under a bridge in Paris.
http://framboise781.free.fr/Paris.htm
(The above incredible link courtesy of my friend Miguel)
A book bound with human skin from dead woman's corpse finally removed from
Harvard library
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Apparently, in the 1800s, it wasn't unheard of for books to be bound in
human skin. And Harvard University still had one such book in its library —
until...
2 hours ago
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