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That is a pretty awesome story Gabriele! And thank you for all of your contributions on the World War I thread. Very much appreciated.

As a former history teacher, I'm always thrilled to hear that readers have been enlightened as well as entertained by my novels. Recently, I spoke with Arthur Bishop, son of legendary WW1 Ace Billy Bishop, who said that he not only enjoyed my two novels set during the war, but also that "The amazing amount of research provides an excellent educational background on the Great War and on aviation. The writer obviously has a keen interest in and knowledge of the subject."

Billy appeared in Book 2 and had his title of top ace delayed for a few weeks by one of my fictional characters. : )

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Wishing to share some of what I had gleaned during four years researching the Great War, I created a website of "Odd, Intriguing, Surprising Facts About WWI" which you can visit at http://4yearsofww1.info/

Gabriele's site: http://mindshadows.com/

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John's site: http://www.whenwolfcomes.com/

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A & S Online:

http://aands.virginia.edu/x9999.xml

There's all sorts of other great examples of things being discovered or invented by accident. But of course in all of these stories, the accident is only part of the equation. IT usually has to be paired with an ope-mindedness that allows the researcher to move off in an unexpected direction, and an almost obsessive unwillingness to shrug your shoulders and ignore the anamoly.

Rick wrote: "Scottish Biologist Alexander Fleming is the man. Headed out on vacation in 1928, he failed to clean up his lab before he left. Friends often teased Fleming for being disorderly. The truth is that ..."

Thank you for that story and I will certainly look for this book on Amazon or in my local Barnes and Noble store when I return stateside. Great story, I thought it might be him considering a disorderly lab and the things you see grow in office coffee cups. What a wondrous discovery made because he was not the neatest of men; an accident that has literally saved millions, I imagine.

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Betty's website with an interesting trailer video:

http://www.bettydravis.com/

Scottish Biologist Alexander Fleming is the man. Headed out on vacation in 1928, he failed to clean up his lab before he left. Friends often teased Fleming for being disorderly. The truth is that he was very hesitant to throw out his old bacteria cultures until absolutely sure that there was nothing more to learn from them.

He came back from vacation to find some Petri dishes had grown moldy. Sorting through them prior to throwing them out, he discovered that the mold in one dish had destroyed the bacteria culture he was growing there. The mold was a kind of fungus, penicillium, that grows on bread.

Yes, this is how penicillin was discovered.

When eventually awarded a Nobel Prize for his serendipitous discovery, Fleming dryly commented: “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”

To find out about the other 99 stories, you have to buy the book! :)

Of course we will and thank you for letting us know about it. Gee..for being able to self promote..do you think you could give us a hint in advance on who was the scientist who won a Nobel Prize because he failed to clean up his lab? The book sounds like great fun!

In the shameless self promotion department, I would be remiss in not mentioning that my newest book The Greatest Science Stories Never Told 100 tales of invention and discovery to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy was released this week by Harper Collins. It is the fourth in my "Greatest Stories Never Told" series, and contains all sorts of fun tales of invention and discovery, like the scientist who won a Nobel Prize because he failed to clean up his lab, the teenager who invented television in a potato field, and the scientist who gave 200 monks ...the shock of their lives. There's also a duel to the death, a ship made of ice, and a surprising amount of golf! Please check it out!

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Rick Beyer's website with some interesting video about Lincoln:

http://www.rickbeyer.net/index.php?page=...

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Jonathan's website where you can watch a video of Jonathan discussing Vermeer and his book, etc.

http://www.jonathanlopez.net/

Since we have a rule about spam and about promoting one's work; a NO SPAM rule. I have opened up this thread for those authors who might be amongst us who would like to post something about their upcoming book or other authored work.

If you post any solicitations anywhere else, they will be deleted and you will be banned from the group the next time that you do this without any additional warning whatsoever.

However, there is one other rule: You must be contributing to the discussions elsewhere and be following the rules of the group which are found in the descriptor.

For those of you who are contributing members of the group, you may post your announcement about your book here. We are happy to have a place for you to announce your books and this is it. If you have written other works such as poetry, short stories or other copyrighted material, please feel free to post that here as well. However, we perform a monthly clean up of threads; so if we have not seen or heard from you in 30 days, then most likely your post may be deleted.

We also post the books of group members who are authors on this thread and those are permanently added comments for the benefit of the group.


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