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READING — OCTOBER 2019

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24234. (Ted Mar­ris-Wolf) Fam­i­ly Bonds: Free Blacks and Re-enslave­ment Law
24235. (Adam Gry­de­høj) Marine Island Economies: Dri­vers, Roles, and Chal­lenges [arti­cle]
24236. (George Papasav­vas & Vasi­liko Kas­sian­idou) The New Sta­tus of Cop­per and Bronze on
. . . . . Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age [arti­cle]
24237. (Sang-Hee Lee) Close Encoun­ters with Humankind ― A Paleoanthropologist
. . . . . Inves­ti­gates Our Evolv­ing Species
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Image of the Month — Why there will never be a wall between Canada and the United States

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This man is stand­ing on the U.S. / Cana­di­an bor­der on a minor moun­tain range. The image faces north, with British Colum­bia in the back­ground. The bor­der is 8,891 kilo­me­tres (5,525 miles) long… and a lot of it is like this. In one place in Yukon Ter­ri­to­ry, it is 18,000 feet above sea lev­el and sur­round­ed by hun­dreds of miles of glac­i­ers. A tem­per­a­ture of −77.5 °C (−107.5 °F) has been record­ed there. A long por­tion cuts through the mid­dle of the Great Lakes, and bisects Nia­gara Falls. In the old­er, east­ern por­tions it pass­es through the mid­dle of small towns. In one case, it cuts diag­o­nal­ly through a pub­lic library, indi­cat­ed by a black line paint­ed on the floor. The book check-in and check-out are in dif­fer­ent countries.

FILMS — SEPTEMBER 2019

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(Crow­ley 2007) Boy A
(Carter 2016) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.108 ― A Dying Art
(1896–1900) Vic­to­ri­an Era Footage from Around the World 
(Méliès 1897) Après le bal
(White 1900) Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce
(Urban 1903) Cheese Mites [aka What the Pro­fes­sor Found in the Cheese]
(Urban 1906) The Streets of London
(White 1896) A Morn­ing Bath
(White 1896) Her­ald Square
(White 1896) Pas­sa­ic Falls, New Jersey
(White 1896) Amer­i­can Falls from Above, Amer­i­can Side
(Heise 1896) Amy Muller
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First-time listening for September 2019

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25828. (Claude Debussy) Marche écos­saise sur un thème pop­u­laire for Orchestra
25829. (Claude Debussy) Tar­entelle styri­enne for Orches­tra for Orchestra
25830. (Christoph Willibald Gluck) Orpheus and Euridice [Orfeo ed Euridice] [com­plete
. . . . . opera; d. Richter; Fish­er-Dieskau, Janowitz, Moser]
25831. (John Coltrane & Miles Davis) The Com­plete Colum­bia Record­ings 1955–61 CD1
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READING — SEPTEMBER 2019

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24224. (James H. Bar­rett, R. A. Nichol­son & R. Cerón-Car­ras­co) Archaeo-ichthyological
. . . . . Evi­dence for Long-term Socioe­co­nom­ic Trends in North­ern Scot­land: 3500 BC to
. . . . . AD 1500 [arti­cle]
24225. (Michael Patrick Lynch) Know-It-All Society
24226. (Arthur Deconynck) La félic­ité ambiguë de l’ara­bie heureuse [arti­cle]
24227. (Drew Hay­den Tay­lor) Sir John A: Acts of a Gen­tri­fied Ojib­way Rebel­lion [play]
24228. (Cari­na Bar­bosa Gou­vêa) “Pelos poderes de Mon­tesquieu, eu ten­ho força!” [arti­cle]
24229. (Iain Banks, Eeri­ka Kosk­i­nen-Koivis­to & Oula Seit­so­nen) Pub­lic Engage­ments with
. . . . . Lap­land’s Dark Her­itage: Com­mu­ni­ty Archae­ol­o­gy in Finnish Lap­land [arti­cle]
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Image of the month

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The Uni­corn Strikes Back (2006) by the pro­lif­ic Amer­i­can artist Red Grooms. Grooms is best known for his com­ic por­traits of life in New York City, but here he cre­ates a bril­liant spoof of medieval French man­u­script illumination.

FILMS — AUGUST 2019

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(Blair 1961) The Adven­tures of Super­boy [unsold TV series pilot]
(Tut­tle 1929) The Stu­dio Mur­der Mystery
(Lang­dale 1995) Earth­worm Jim: Ep.1 ― Sidekicked
(Rob­bins 1978) Corvette Summer
(Kin­caid 1986) Robot Holocaust 
(Trelfer 2019) Dark Cor­ners Review: (365) Robot Holocaust
(Kin­caid 1986) Robot Holo­caust [Mys­tery Sci­ence The­atre version]
(Rear­don 1994) The Simp­sons: Ep.109 ― Tree­house of Hor­ror V
(Price 1974) The Tomor­row Peo­ple: Ep.23 ― The Dooms­day Men, Part 1: Dressed to Kill
(Price 1974) The Tomor­row Peo­ple: Ep.24 ― The Dooms­day Men, Part 2: The Burn­ing Sword
(Price 1974) The Tomor­row Peo­ple: Ep.25 ― The Dooms­day Men, Part 3: Run Rab­bit Run
(Price 1974) The Tomor­row Peo­ple: Ep.26 ― The Dooms­day Men, Part 4: The Shuttlecock
(Pil­lai 2016) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.105 ― Habeas Corpus
(Vasquez 2001) Invad­er Zim: Ep.1 ― The Night­mare Begins
(Rose 2012) Max von Sydow on Ing­mar Bergman 
(Schus­ter 1952) Kid Monk Baroni
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First-time listening for August 2019

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25795. (John Coltrane) Giant Steps
25796. (Trad.Attack!) Live at Trans Musi­cales, Rennes, France. Record­ed Decem­ber 1, 2016
25797. (After­noons In Stereo) The City Is Sleeping
Chill­hop Essen­tials — Spring 2018:
. . . . 25798. (Cap Kendricks) “The One”
. . . . 25799. (J’san) “Good Morn­ing Sunshine”
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READING — AUGUST 2019

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24208. (Arthur Machen) The Angels of Mons: The Bow­men and Oth­er Leg­ends of the War 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
24209. (Athur Machen) The Bow­men [sto­ry]
24210. (V. Watrous, et al) Econ­o­my and Soci­ety in the Gour­nia Region of Crete [arti­cle]
24211. (Amy Reed) The Boy and Girl who Broke the World
24212. (Ármann Jakob­s­son) Felce, William Mor­ris and the Ice­landic Sagas [review of William 
. . . . . Mor­ris and the Ice­landic Sagas by Ian Felce] [review]
24213. (Tom Mason, et al) Spi­ders of Toronto
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Image of the Month

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