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Alphabetical CAMELS!!!!

February 21st 2009 09:32
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During Persia's 10th century, the ruling grand Vizier had amassed a private library collection of a considerable size - 117,000 books..

The almost unbelievable part about this however, is that he took his entire library with him whenever he went travelling. How did he manage this?

He had the books loaded up onto the backs of camels who had been specifically trained to walk in alphabetical order!
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Writer Apologises To 6 Year Old For Below Par Story

October 14th 2008 09:25
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Beatrix Potter of Peter Rabbit fame once received a letter from a 6 year old child who wrote of his disappointment with her latest tale, the Tale of Pigling Bland.

The author then wrote a letter of apology to the child explaining that even though she had been quite ill at the time, her publishers had twisted her arm into producing her annual Christmas book.
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