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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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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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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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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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2007? Package of "Erstein Sucre enveloppé." Les Fables de La Fontaine. 192 packets of two sugar cubes, each packet wrapped in a paper illustrating a fable. I kilogram package, 5¾" x 4" x 3". Unknown source.

I remember marveling over this…

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2015? Storytellers' Favorite Fables: Folktales from around the World! Organic Kids Company. DVD. 62 minutes. Eight tales. $3.60 from Leonardo Hernandez, Hialeah Gardens, FL, through Ebay, July, '18.

Storytellers do lively presentations here…

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Steve Davis Estates advertisement. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough. -- Aesop." Mailed advertisement

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