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Year: 2017

Tweets for January 2017

Donald for Dalai Lama, or Pope, or Caliph, or something

A Trump Taj Mahal Casino multitrack jukebox, to help make religion rather better than it has been, again.

Entrance to the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, NJ.

Four more African inflationary tunes

Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Congo are now represented, but so far there’s nothing from Zimbabwe or in French.

Zimbabwean banknotes from 10 dollars to 100 billion dollars, issued 2007-8.

A sensational 1810 Parisian fire scene on top of an 1840s Russian barrel organ

But who are the three noseless Austrian ladies?

Robert Hillingford, The Disaster at the Ball Given by the Austrian Embassy in Paris, 1810 (1897).

Tweets for December 2016

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  • London Chronicle, 1791 Vol LXIX (1791) £126.00
  • Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving: A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 of 2 vols (1846) £117.00
  • Martin Carver (ed.): The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (1992) £25.20
  • Vere Gordon Childe: Skara Brae: A Pictish Village in Orkney (1931) £157.50
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