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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was written by Brendan Bachmann, a visiting library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Horoscopes have long been popular with those hoping for a glimpse of their future. Indeed, some individuals have made a business of the mystical, profiting from people’s curiosity of the unknown. A horoscope pamphlet that has recently …
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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Samuel G. Goodrich, known to his young readers as Peter Parley, published the first illustration of dinosaurs in an American children's book in 1840.
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a guest post written by Brendan Bachmann, a visiting library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Over the last few years there has been an explosion in meat substitute product popularity. The “fake meat” industry is thriving, and it is predicted by some to become worth $140 billion dollars in the …
Posted in: Business, Cookbooks and Food
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Brendan Bachmann is a library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He spent two weeks with Business Reference staff at the Library of Congress in January 2020. Coming from a very different background, having worked for six years in various public libraries in Australia, it has been a fascinating experience spending two weeks …
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