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Because an American Indian of his era wouldn’t know paleontological terms in use today, Turok called the dinosaurs he encountered “honkers.”
NYPL - (poster advertising release of book) Robert Louis Stevenson's New Story The Ebb-Tide
(released 1894) Short novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.
Three beggars operate in the port of Papeete on Tahiti. They are Herrick, a failed English businessman; Davis, an American sea captain disgraced by the loss of his last ship; and Huish, a dishonest Cockney of various employments.
One day an off-course schooner carrying a cargo of champagne from San Francisco to Sydney arrives in port, its officers having been killed by smallpox. With no-one else willing to risk infection, the U.S. consul employs Davis to take over the ship for the remainder of its voyage.
Davis brings the other two men, along with a plan to steal the ship and navigate it to Peru, where they will sell the cargo and vessel and disappear with the money.
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Waterfall murder French dime novel cover, Nick Carter Le Grand Détective Américain No. 65 circa 1909, “Keno McCall; histoire tragiqu d'un Suicide” (Keno McCall, the Tragic History of a Suicide") by the author of “Nick Carter”. Reprinted from Nick Carter Weekly. “The boat passed like an arrow over the barrage–The man fell into the river, bringing Nick with him.”
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Deadly lighthouse fight Italian dime novel cover, Petrosino Il Grande Polizoiotto Italo-Americano (The Great Italian-American Detective) No. 53, 1948, “La vendetta di un pazzo” (Revenge of a Madman), anonymous (Theo von Blankensee?), cover by Tancredi Scarpelli. Abridged reprint and translation of German Sherlock Holmes dime novel Aus den Geheimakten des Welt-Detectiv, unidentified issue. “The detective’s efforts were in vain. The madman raised him and threw him from the top of the lighthouse.”
The Blue Lagoon (Universal International, 1949) Starring Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Noel Purcell, Susan Stranks, and Peter Jones. Directed by Frank Launder.
movie poster:Jungle Man-Eaters (Columbia, 1954)
Starring Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe. (IMDb)