If you use this, link here or leave a small copy in the comments -- I'd like to see what you make. Magic; Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography (1897) written by Albert Allis Hopkins and Henry Ridgely Evans

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From high class beginnings to the myths of inked up criminals, tattoo historian Dr Matt Lodder plots out a history of British body art.

Names are often a tad misleading. This is definitely the case with the axolotl, which is often referred to as the "Mexican walking fish." First, this little guy is not a fish; rather, he's a neotenic salamander (a kind of amphibian). Neotenic salamanders are generally characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with thin bodies and somewhat stumpy […]