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13th century Italy gets paper Finally Europe had a cheap alternative to vellum and parchment. (It took the skins of 80 lambs to create a 200-page parchment manuscript...
That tale consumed three enthralling hours a while back on Coast to Coast AM, the 5-hr.-a-night radio show devoted to all things weird and shepherded by Art Bell, a genial host shrouded, until recently, in his own poignant mystery. Photo "evidence" of the parchment-skinned ET can be seen on Bell's busy website www.artbell.com (44 million hits since January '97). When he is asked about the alien in the freezer, Bell laughs heartily. "Do I have doubts about that story? Yes! Was it entertaining? Oh, absolutely!" Bell, 54, offers a forum for all manner of amazing...
...rock, chalk, oatmeal, twig, sand, deep sand, flax, parchment, stone, putty, buff, dove, raffia...
...newsmagazine in 1923, sought to produce a "literature of business." He wanted something much more than the stock quotes and carloading stats that dominated business journalism, and he got it by starting what he called "the Tycoon's own magazine," FORTUNE. The monthly was elegant, oversize, printed on parchment; amazingly priced at $10 a year; the originator of the lengthy, often condemning, corporation story--and an instant...
Tell that to India. Holum's view of what parchment can achieve--anyone anywhere forever?--is beyond grandiose. It is silly...