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You've heard that an airplane is "alive and in dialogue with the aviator" ( Denice Turner, Writing the Heavenly Frontier, 2011). Well, here's textbook "proof that the airplane is alive, well and an important part of the national transportation system" (Richard L. Collins, Flying Magazine, 1974). Our illustration is from Biology and Man by Benjamin Gruenberg, 1944.
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The secrets of How to Be Your Own Cat go back to the Meiji period of Japan, when cat people wrote books in between naps. For example, the author of the Japanese classic I Am a Cat was himself a feline: "Choosing a kitten for the main character has a two-fold meaning as Sōseki was, in fact, himself a stray kitten" (Aiko Ito & Graeme Wilson's introduction to Sōseki Natsume's I Am a Cat). Our illustration from a 1906 edition of the book.
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You've heard that cigarettes kill, but they can also be executed.
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You've heard of the force which holds the celestial bodies in orbit, and here he is, in the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1917.
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While it's true that you can't get blood from a turnip, the ox heart carrot is another story. From the Annual of True Blue Seeds, 1905.
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You've heard of "the booze talking," but here's how it happens, c. 1935. From the Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library.
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The dove of peace is actually a general with its own arsenal of verbena cannons that fire four-leaf clovers. (But you probably already knew that.)
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Did you know that "dumb blondes" extend into the vegetable kingdom? We find our proof in Tilton's Annual Illustrated Catalogue of Seeds, 1893.
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