This selection was definitely NOT because ill Phil is in self-preservation mode over the impending Midwestern snow storms that are sure to be harsh even before Winter kicks into full gear (if Buffalo was any sign). What you’re listing to is an educational technical manual for aspiring flame thrower users who wish to safely and correctly rid their walkways, sidewalks, and driveways on their property from snow and ice. Compliments of the US Gov’t. I love America.

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War Department Technical Manual TM 3-376A Portable Flame Thrower M2-2 by U.S. War Dept. (1944)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/53669/pg53669-images.html#PARA_41

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Find someone in your life who is as passionate about preserving and advancing the quality of your favorite hobbies as Newdigate Prizeman was about saving poetry from the slaughter of poet conformists! Poetry almost died in 1872, but Newdigate shows us what pitfalls true poetry should never profane.

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Every Man His Own Poet: or, The Inspired Singer’s Recipe Book by Newdigate Prizeman (1872)

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What starts out as an innocent recipe book for healing “water” tonics for literally anything that ails you in the late 1600s, turns you into questioning, “What sound does a snail actually make?” “Would WebMD perhaps prove useful to apothecaries of this era?” “Add 3 GALLONS of beer?!? Hmm... Sounds legit to me.”

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A Queens Delight by E. Tyler and R. Holt (1671)

https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protected-by-copyright/

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If you’ve got a problem…with complex pie recipes, if no one else can help…you core an apple, and if you can find…your husband, maybe you can hire… the A-Team… a.k.a Aunt Jenny! (I mean, did they even care about single people in 1952?)

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12 Pies Husbands Like Best by Aunt Jenny and Lever Brothers Company (1952)

https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protected-by-copyright/

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Remember when bread-making was in vogue two years ago? It was like everybody was bracing themselves for grocery stores to be wiped off the face of the earth and we would all be back to homestead living. Well, the White House was apparently-bracing for said calamity all the way back in the 1850s! Can you say, “conspiracy?”

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The White House Cook Book by Mrs. F.L. Gillette & Hugo Ziemann (1887)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/spider-bread/16853/

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Thinking of breaking out of prison from death row for a crime you didn’t commit? Have your friends thought up a plan of escape and have everything taken care for you to live a life of happy exile? If that friend that visits you in prison is Socrates, he will probably convince you that you deserve to die. Find a better friend.

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Crito by Plato translated by BENJAMIN JOWETT (circa 1890)

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Have you ever been talking with a friend, ended your conversation, and then realized they never mentioned a rather noticeable chunk of food stuck in between your teeth? Don’t worry! Plutarch says that’s completely normal. Your enemies are a lot more observant and will be sure to also wait for the opportune time to mention that your fly is open as well.

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Plutarch’s Morals by Plutarch translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, M.A. (1898)

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Plutarch/The-Moralia

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Getting out-orated by a 70-year old? Socrates comes out with gusto! This episode comes at a time when the definition of wisdom is being mishandled by a bunch of Sophists. And I say that with a “Oh, bless your heart” sincerity.

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The Apology Of Socrates translated by Henry Cary M.A (c. 1850)

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/apologia

https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/apology/summary/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Socrates/The-charge-of-impiety

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sophist-philosophy

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If you were captivated by The Odyssey, then look no further to get your fix of the OG that started it all… Also, who knew Diomed (Tydides) sounded like such a nerd?

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The Iliad of Homer translated by Alexander Pope (1899)

https://www2.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=sounds

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Ever get kidnapped by Calypso preventing you from going home from war, so your son thinks you’re dead and your wife is now “on the market” again to inherit your fortune by a bunch of sloppy, grubby, old men? Not fun. But, hey. At least you can pronounce a bunch of super obscure words and name your kid Penelope one day.

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The Odyssey written by Homer (translated by Samuel Butler) (1897)

http://badreviewsofgoodbooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/homer-odyssey-iii.html

https://home.ubalt.edu/ntygfit/ai_01_pursuing_fame/ai_01_tell/iliad_characters_.htm

https://images.pcmac.org/SiSFiles/Schools/GA/FranklinCounty/FranklinCountyHigh/Uploads/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Odyssey%20Pronounciation%20Guide.pdf

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