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Mirro 50024 Foley 2-Quart Stainless Steel Food Mill Cookware, Silver $39.99 T-Fal/Wearever 2 Qt. Food MillStainless steel construction. Great for canning applesauce and mashing potatoes. Mashes, rices, and strains. Ideal for natural and healthy food preparation…. |
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Babbages Engine (1) Photo Mugs Babbages Difference Engine – he was continually modifying the design, as with modern computers, so it is not possible to date this precisely…. |
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Phrenology model Photo Mugs Phrenology model. Computer artwork of a brainscan (pink) in the head of a phrenology model. Thepseudo-science of phrenology was based on thebelief that a persons intellect and personalitywere related to the shape of their skull andscalp. This theory was proposed by the Germanphysician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828). It waspopular in the nineteenth century. This modelshows the characteristics associ… |
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The Beatles Anthology $53.79 Initially broadcast as a TV miniseries to go with the series of three Anthology double-CD albums, this set of eight documentary tapes has the heft and scope of one of Ken Burns’s expansive projects. Still, unless you are either a historian or a truly committed fan, you’ll find yourself with way more material–particularly about the Beatles’ early lives as lads in Liverpool–than you’ll want t… |
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Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys Story $13.43 This smartly produced, intelligently written documentary strikes a satisfying balance between thoughtful analysis, personal history, and sheer musical pleasure for a portrait of the seminal California pop band that will prove equally compelling to both knowledgeable fans and casual listeners. In the audiovisual equivalent of a loaves-and-fishes miracle, The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony weaves 45 o… |
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The Rutles – All You Need is Cash $10.65 Originally hatched in 1978 as a short film parody for Saturday Night Live, this expanded, 70-minute mockumentary on a trend-setting quartet of British mop-tops bloomed into one of Eric Idle’s better projects outside Monty Python. Taking the career (and hagiography) of the Beatles and inverting them quite nicely, Idle conjures up four doppelgangers who offer the familiar mannerisms but practically… |
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1492 – Conquest of Paradise [VHS] $14.95 One of Ridley Scott’s most wrong-headed films, this one (like all of his movies) looks fabulous and sounds utterly ridiculous, almost from the beginning. His first mistake was casting the wonderful Gerard Depardieu as Columbus and forcing him to speak English, which Depardieu does with decided difficulty. After spending way too much time on the ocean with Columbus’s three ships (you kind of wish t… |
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Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet [VHS] $23.95 Triumph of the Nerds won legions of computer-skeptical and computer-naive viewers with its mix of minutiae and hip techniques. Going one step further into the digital maze, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet operates as a sequel of sorts to the surprise docu-hit. Just as its precursor chronicled the rise of empires built on computer software, Nerds 2.0.1 collects interviews from key play… |
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Pirates of Silicon Valley [VHS] $9.79 This dramatization of the tangled history of Apple Computer and Microsoft, based on a book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, hits enough of the right notes to make its failures all the more frustrating. The script follows the entwined paths of Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates with a pointed sense of the cultural divide between the hip, self-absorbed Apple cofounder and the brill… |
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SOG Specialty Knives & Tools F01T Tactical Tomahawk, Black $62.00 The original Vietnam Tomahawk, SOG’s F01T-N Tactical Tomahawk is the latest incarnation of one of history’s most unusual weapons. This versatile piece of equipment handles a number of tasks including excavation, operations breaching, obstacle removal, and extraction, which makes the F01T-N an ideal tool for military and service personnel..caption {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif… |
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