Ever since the beginning of mankind and during the growth of several civilizations, there was a need to keep prisoners and to enslave people. This was necessary to have an inexpensive labor force to form...
This guide offers an overview of the Del Prado Relive Waterloo partwork that was released in the UK in the past few years. It lists the issues in order detailing the booklets, figure packs and additional items...
Jude Deveraux was born Jude White. She wrote her first book in 1976, and she was a teacher before becoming a writer. Her books feature strong heroines and are mostly historical romance. If you would like to...
Windows versus Linux When I started with computers we were using DOS to make them work. When Windows came along in a usable form, 3.1 everything seem fantastic! No longer was it needed to remember a list of...
John Flanagan originally wrote twenty short stories to encourage his 12 year old son Michael to read. These 20 short stories formed the basis for the very popular bestselling RANGER’S APPRENTICE series, which...
DIY Fertility Magic – Easy Enough To Try Yourself. Magick is not always difficult to create. Here are some simple, free and quick idea’s to help you conceive that much awaited child. They come from a wide...
FUNDAMENTALS OF BOOK CARE. DON'T read your valuable books, even with clean hands! You want them to keep their value then reading is a big no no.Don't eat or drink around your books.Don't loan your books....
There are tens of thousands of military history books out there so it's impossible to give anything like the whole picture even if it were desirable to do so and I will not attempt such an undertaking. What I...
The practise of storing books flat on the shelves in medieval times probably gave rise to the decoration of the closed book's fore edges as a quick visual method of identifying the volumes. From the Sixteenth...
After the revival of the art of fore edge painting in the 18th Century by bookbinders like James Edward of Halifax and John Whitaker, this treatment of books became very popular. At the time book collecting...