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2015 Sun Catcher Featuring TH. Chinese. Orcara. Unknown source.

It takes very little sunshine to get this tortoise to move his oversized head! According to web resources, Orcara is a Chinese toy manufacturer that produces a diverse range of…

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Retractors, like this antique example, are tools used to pull away soft tissue and organs from parts of the body that must be accessed to perform vital surgical procedures on patients. There is archaeological evidence of this tool being used as far…

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Full-page advertisement for Suze Pernod cocktail using FC. From an issue of "Ca m'intéresse" magazine in 1989. 8¼" x 10½".

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2020 T-shirt featuring "Quid rides? De te fabula narratur" from Horace. Short sleeves. $22.99 from Goathead Tees, Brown City, MI, through Etsy.

This has been a favorite line of mine from Horace's Satire I 1, verse 69. He has just been retelling…

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2019 T-shirt with Harrison Weir's illustration of TH and "Aesop's Fables The Tortoise and the Hare." Gift. Christmas, 2018.

What a treat to see an old classic illustration like this still alive land well! The bunny sleeps as the turtle trudges

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2023 T-shirt with image and lines from "The Scorpion and the Frog." $17.44 from strtwr at redbubble.com, Nov., '23.

This shirt image represents a surprising choice. Most people do not know this fable of a frog who offers a ride to a scorpion. …

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Reader not acknowledged. Recorded to accompany booklet of the same name by J.P. Miller. NY: Random House.

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