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December 14, 2015
Book Review: Claws for Alarm
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December 11, 2015
Cheetahs Migrated from North America 100,000 Years Ago
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December 10, 2015
Miss Cuddlywumps Investigates: Siren Song
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December 9, 2015
Clean as a Kitten!
Wordless Wednesday
This week, we take a look at two trade cards from around 1900, both using images of kittens to sell borax soap, because when you think of borax, you think of kittens. Or something like that.
A kitten converses with a donkey on this trade card for Wrisley’s White Borax Soap, ca. 1900. Image from Miami U. (Ohio) Libraries—Digital
This week, we take a look at two trade cards from around 1900, both using images of kittens to sell borax soap, because when you think of borax, you think of kittens. Or something like that.
A kitten converses with a donkey on this trade card for Wrisley’s White Borax Soap, ca. 1900. Image from Miami U. (Ohio) Libraries—Digital
December 4, 2015
Feral Cats in Australia Have European Origins
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December 3, 2015
What Does Kitty-Corner Have to Do with Cats?
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December 2, 2015
Cats and Mice: The Eternal War
Wordless Wednesday
Cats and mice have been going at it for... well, pretty much forever, or at least as long as there have been cats and mice. This small collection of medieval manuscript illustrations shows the state of this conflict in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
Detail of a miniature of a cat and a rather large mouse depicted in an
Cats and mice have been going at it for... well, pretty much forever, or at least as long as there have been cats and mice. This small collection of medieval manuscript illustrations shows the state of this conflict in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
Detail of a miniature of a cat and a rather large mouse depicted in an
November 30, 2015
Book Review: Ali Brandon’s “Plot Boiler”
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November 25, 2015
Thanksgiving Is Better with Cats
Wordless Wednesday
Somehow, cats have been left out of depictions of many famous events, when surely there must have been a feline or two around when the event took place. On this (almost) Wordless Wednesday and Thanksgiving Eve, She of Little Talent tries to remedy that. Don't be disappointed with her effort; there's a reason I call her She of Little Talent.
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Somehow, cats have been left out of depictions of many famous events, when surely there must have been a feline or two around when the event took place. On this (almost) Wordless Wednesday and Thanksgiving Eve, She of Little Talent tries to remedy that. Don't be disappointed with her effort; there's a reason I call her She of Little Talent.
What's wrong with this picture?
November 20, 2015
The Cat, the Rooster, and the Fox: A Russian Folktale
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