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Bonsai Kitten Bonsai Kitten is an internet hoax, which claimed to give instructions on how to grow kittens in bottles as a form of decoration, similar in fashion to a Bonsai tree. Soon after birth the kitten is supposedly placed in a glass container, allowing the kitten to grow to fill the vessel that contains it.
Bonsal, North Carolina Bonsal, North Carolina is an unincorporated community in the New Hill, North Carolina postal district, part of the Extra Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) of Apex, North Carolina, in extreme southwestern Wake County, North Carolina off the original alignment of US1. Bonsal was a railroad junction between the Durham & South Carolina Railroad (D&SC) (originally chartered as the New Hope Valley Railroad) and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (originally the Raleigh & Augusta Air Line Railroad).
Bonsall UFO The Bonsall UFO was an incident said to occur at 21.15 on October 5 2000, in Bonsall in Derbyshire, near Matlock, where a woman named Sharon Rowlands of Slaley claims to have observed a large luminous object, with a shimmering pink colour, hovering and rotating over a nearby field.
Bonsecours Market Bonsecours Market (French: Marché Bonsecours (m)), at 350 rue Saint-Paul, Montreal, is a two-storey domed public market. Named for the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel and designed by architects William Footner and George Browne, it opened in 1847.
Bonseki Bonseki is the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black lacquer trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks. Small delicate tools are used in Bonseki such as feathers, small flax brooms, sifters, spoons and wood wedges.
Bonsly are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Bonsly in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures that characters encounter while embarking on various adventures— and tamed Pokémon creatures owned by Pokémon trainers.
Bontago Bontago is a freeware game developed by students at the DigiPen institute. The aim of the game is to build a tower using random blocks and to create a "shadow" that reaches a pre-designated number of flags (setable in the pre-game options).
Bontebok The Bontebok is an antelope found in South Africa and Lesotho. The Bontebok has two subspecies; the Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus), occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the Blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) occurring in the highveld.
Bonteika Bonteika, pronunciation: BOHN-dhehee-kah (Greek: Μποντέικα, formerly: Μποντάϊικα), formerly Bontaiika, pre-1990s, Bondeika, rarely Bouteika is a small village that is part of the community of Sageika in the prefecture of Achaia. It is in the western part of Movri.
Bontempi Bontempi is an Italian manufacturer who produced an electronic three octave organ that has a sounds similar to the Stylophone. It was cased in plastic with twelve chord buttons on the left of the keyboard, and power and volume controls on the right; the sound was produced when air was forced over the chords by a small motor.
Bontnewydd railway station Bontnewydd is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway. The halt was opened in February 1999 on the petition of the villagers of Bontnewydd and is between Caernarfon and Dinas on the LĂ´n Eifion cycle route.
Bonus Bill The Bonus Bill of 1817 was a bill introduced by John Calhoun to provide United States highways linking The East and South to The West using the earnings Bonus from the Second Bank of the United States. It was a part of the American System, which was proposed by Henry Clay, a colleague of Calhoun.
Bonus Game Bonus Game is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on the show's first episode on September 4, 1972, it is played for a four-digit prize, usually valued between $3,000 and $10,000, and uses small prizes.
Bonus hunting Bonus hunting (also known as bonus whoring or bonus bagging) is a term used to describe the process of a person taking advantage of online casinos' promotional bonuses. The process is engineered such that the mathematical advantage is put in favour of the player rather than the house.
Bonus Poker Bonus Poker is a video poker game based on Jacks or Better, but Bonus Poker offers a higher payout percentage for four of a kind. The player is dealt five cards and can then choose which cards to keep or discard.
Bonus round A bonus round (sometimes also called a bonus game or sometimes in the industry an end game) is a special round in game shows and other games. It usually comes after the main or "front" game as a bonus for the winner.
Bonus rule The Bonus Rule was a law instituted by Major League Baseball in 1947 that prevented teams from assigning certain players to farm clubs. The rule stipulated that when a Major league team signed a player to a contract in excess of $4,000, the Major League team was required to keep that player on the 40-man roster for two full-seasons.
Bonus stage A bonus stage (also known as a bonus level or bonus round) is a special level within a video game designed to reward the player or players. A bonus stage typically allows the player to collect extra points or power-ups and usually has no dangerous enemies.
Bonus track In terms of recorded music, a bonus track is a piece of music which has been included on specific releases or reissues of an album. This is most often done as a promotional device, either as an incentive to customers to purchase albums they might otherwise not, or to repurchase albums they already own.
Bonusprint.com Novices' Chase The Bonusprint.com Novices' Chase is a Grade 2 National Hunt chase in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above novices run over a distance of 2 miles 4 furlongs (4,023 metres) at Haydock Park Racecourse in January.
Bonvesin de la Riva Bonvesin de la Riva (sometimes spelt Bonvesino or Buonvicino) (born circa 1240, died c. 1313) was an Italian friar of the Ordine degli Umiliati (Italian, literally, order of the humble ones) and one of the greater Lombardese poets and writers of the 13th century.
Bonyad Bonyads are Iranian charitable trusts that control over 20% of Iran's GDP Initially set up during the time of the Shah], they were used to [[embezzlement|funnel money into the Shah's personal coffers. After the Iranian revolution, the Bonyads were used to redistribute oil income amongst the poor and amongst the families of martyrs.
Bonython Park, Adelaide Bonython Park is a 17 hectare park in the West Parklands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the largest single park of the Parklands, and it is situated on north-western side of the River Torrens bordered by Port Road.
BonziBUDDY Released in 1999 and discontinued in 2004, BonziBUDDY, sometimes spelled Bonzi Buddy, BonziBuddy, or BONZIBuddy, was an on-screen "intelligent software agent]" from BONZI Software. The official website claimed it would help a person explore the [[Internet through various functions along with their own sidekick.
Bonzo Dog Band The Bonzo Dog Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") was the brainchild of a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a children's television programme, Do Not Adjust Your Set.
Bonzo Goes to College Bonzo Goes to College (1952) is the sequel to Bedtime for Bonzo. Like Bedtime for Bonzo, it was directed by Frederick De Cordova; however, it has different writers (Jack Henley and Leo Lieberman) and lacks Ronald Reagan's presence.
Boo (Nintendo) A Boo (Telesa or Teresa) is a type of ghost featured in Mario video games. Boos made their first appearance under the name of "Boo Diddly" (a play on Bo Diddley, an early rock and roll guitarist and singer) in Super Mario Bros.
Boo (programming language) Boo is an object oriented, statically typed programming language developed starting in 2003, which seeks to make use of the Common Language Infrastructure support for Unicode, internationalization and web style applications, while using a Python-inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility. Some features of note include type inference, generators, multimethods, optional duck typing, macros, true closures, currying, and first class functions.
Boo2Boo Boo2Boo is a radio program running for more than 10 years on Radio Centraal where it airs on a fortnightly basis. The Boo2Boo show is roughly divided into departments which are cared for lovingly by one Bianca Boo and Bonanza Boo who are not related and are known for their quick twit and dodgy footwear.
Boobam A boobam is a percussion instrument of the membranophone family consisting of an array of tubes with membranes stretched on one end, the other end open. The tuning depends partly on the tension on the membrane but mostly on the length of the tube.
Booburn is one of species of Pokémon creatures from the Pokémon media franchise. The purpose of Booburn in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Booby Hatch The Booby Hatch was a skewed sketch comedy show that aired on Bloomington Community Access Television (BCAT -- later CATS) from 1996-2000. In all, there were twelve half-hour episodes (with an additional "unlucky" episode of new & previously unaired material completed in 2002), featuring such memorable characters as the conceptual artist Simon Finklestein, Melvis T.
Booby Island (Queensland) Booby Island is an island West of Muttee Heads at the tip of Cape York Peninsula within the Endeavour Strait Queensland, Australia. This island in the Torres Strait, south of Thursday Island and Prince of Wales Island.
Booby trap In warfare, a booby trap is an antipersonnel device placed in building or in a noncombat area that has a psychological draw for enemy soldiers. The term comes from the implication such a trap will be set off by a foolish person (a booby).
Boodle Boodle, or boodler, was a barroom or street term for money or booty applied by the yellow press (in 1884-1886) to members of the New York Board of Aldermen who were charged with accepting bribes in connection with the granting of a franchise for a street railroad on Broadway. Thereafter, the term came into common use to signify bribery in general and particularly in municipal governments.
Boodle (The Saint) Boodle is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in 1934. This was the thirteenth book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint", and the second short story collection featuring the character.
Boodles Challenge The Boodles Challenge is an international tennis tournament held at the Stoke Park Club in Buckinghamshire, England. The tournament is not related to the ATP Tour and players participating in the tournament will not gain points for the ATP rankings.
Boody Rogers Gordon "Boody" Rogers (1904-1996) was an American comic book artist during the Golden Age of Comics. He retired from comics in 1952, operating a pair of art supply stores in Arizona and penning an autobiography, Homeless Bound.
Boofing In whitewater kayaking, boofing refers to the raising of the kayak's bow (see Bow (ship)) during freefall, while descending a waterfall. This technique is used to avoid submerging the kayak by ensuring it lands flat when it hits the base of the waterfall.
Boog Powell John Wesley Powell (born August 17, 1941 in Lakeland, Florida) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Baltimore Orioles (1961-74), Cleveland Indians (1975-76) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1977). He batted left handed and threw right handed.
Boogaloo Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans.
Boogaloo (song) Fyra Bugg & en Coca Cola, also called Fyra Bugg, is a Swedish language song, written by Mikael Wendt and Christer Lundh. The Swedish pop singer Lotta Engberg won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1987 in Sweden with this song.
Boogaloo Swamis Boogaloo Swamis were an American rock band based in Boston, Massachusetts. Boogaloo Swamis were known for an eclectic and enthusiastic sound influenced by New Orleans rhythm and blues, swamp pop, zydeco, Cajun and quirky psychedelia.
Booger Hollow, Arkansas Booger Hollow is a small town in Pope County, Arkansas. As boasted by the sign near the town's entrance, it has "a total population of 7 humans and one coon dog", although this is a playful estimation.
Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure is a 2D platform game created by Interplay Entertainment and released for the Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES in 1994. The game's lead character also made a cameo appearance as a playable character and the rival of Earthworm Jim in Interplay’s ClayFighter 63 1/3.
Boogeymen (film) Boogeymen is a horror compilation video released in 2001. Marketed as "The Killer Compilation," the film consists of seventeen scenes from notable, revolutionary horror titles, along with short screens describing the apropos villain.
Boogie On Reggae Woman "Boogie On Reggae Woman" is a 1974 funk single by American Motown singing great Stevie Wonder. The song, which had a distinct mellow reggae sound to it, continued Wonder's successful Top Ten streak on the pop charts reaching #3 on the pop chart.
Boogie Shoes Boogie Shoes was a widely popular song released in 1975 on the self titled album KC and the Sunshine Band by the disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The song became a hit when it appeared on the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack in 1977.
Boogie with Stu "Boogie with Stu" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. It was a jam recorded in 1971 at Headley Grange, where the band had done most of the recording for their fourth album.
Boogie-woogie (music) Boogie-woogie is a style of piano-based blues that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and was extended from piano, to three pianos at once, guitar, big band, and country and western music, and even gospel. Whilst the blues traditionally depicts sadness and sorrow, boogie-woogie is associated with dancing.
Boogiemonsters The Boogiemonsters are an American rap group formed when New Yorkers Vex and Mondo met Jamaica-born brothers Yodared and Myntric at Virginia State University. Boogiemonsters began rapping at shows around campus and, after winning first place at Howard University's famous Hip-Hop Convention, they recorded a demo and began shopping it around New York.
Boogiepop and Others (film) is a film directed by Ryu Kaneda, based on the novel Boogiepop and Others from the Boogiepop series, by Kouhei Kadono. The story is presented in vignettes, each major section told from the perspective of a different character.
Boogiepop Dual (also known as Boogiepop Dual: Losers' Circus) is a manga by Masayuki Takano, an offshoot of the Boogiepop series, a series of young adult novels by Kohei Kadono. In this work it becomes clear that Toka Miyashita is not the only Boogiepop, and that there are many.
Boogiepop Phantom Boogiepop Phantom is an anime television series based on the Boogiepop book series by Kouhei Kadono, which have also been adapted into the live action film Boogiepop and Others. The original character designs are by the books' illustrator, Kouji Ogata.
Booji Boy Booji Boy is a character created around 1975 by American New Wave band Devo. He resembles a simian child, typically in an orange nuclear protection suit, is portrayed by Devo lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh in a mask, and is the son of the fictitious General Boy.
Boojum (superfluidity) In the physics of superfluidity, a boojum is a geometric pattern on the surface of one of the phases of superfluid liquid helium-3, whose motion can result in the decay of a supercurrent. A boojum can result from a monopole singularity in the bulk of the liquid being drawn to, and then "pinned" on a surface.
Book A book is a collection of paper, parchment or other material with text, pictures, or both written on them, usually bound together along one edge within covers. Each side of a sheet is called a page and a single sheet within a book may be called a leaf.
Book (graph theory) In graph theory, a book (usually written B_p) is a graph consisting of p triangles sharing a common edge (known as the "base" of the book). Given a graph G, one often writes bk(G) for the largest book contained within G.
Book (law school) A book (also known as book award) is an award given by most law schools to the student who achieves the highest grade in each class.Referring to the recipient of a book award, a law school student might say, for example, "X booked torts".
Book burning Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times, other forms of media, such as phonograph records, video tapes, and CDs have also been ceremoniously burned or torched.
Book club A book club is a club where people usually meet to discuss a book that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. They may also be known as book discussion clubs, and meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, restaurants over meals, etc.
Book collecting Book collecting is the collecting of books. While many book lovers (bibliophiles) accumulate volumes for a personal library, the serious book collector is interested in the physical books themselves, not just their content.
Book curse A book curse was the most widely-employed and effective method of discouraging the thievery of manuscripts during the medieval period. It was one of these laws that copyright laws and penalties from plagiarism have descended from.
Book City Bookcity is a state chain store for books and other cultural materials spread throughout the city of Tehran. It is one of the distributors of English and Latin books in Iran, ranging from just-published fiction to text from Palgrave.
Book Cliffs The Book Cliffs of southeast Utah are one of the world's best places to study sequence stratigraphy. In the 1980s, Exxon scientists used the Cretaceous strata of the Book Cliffs to develop the science of sequence stratigraphy.
Book dropping Book dropping is a relatively new phenomenon. It probably gained popularity throught the internet and is related to other internet "sports" such as geo treasuring (finding so called treasures with a GPS or Global Positioning System, the clues are posted at a website) and flash mobbing (when a great amount of people act in the same unpredictable way, coordinated by internet and other modern media, such as mobile phones).
Book entry Book entry is a system of tracking ownership of securities where no certificate is given to investors. In the case of book-entry-only (BEO) issues, while investors do not receive certificates, a custodian holds one or more global certificates.
Book flood Book flood describes the recent theory, tested in a number of countries, that being exposed to literature will help students learn English as a second language more quickly and effectively than more traditional methods.
Book History (journal) Book History is a journal published annually by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print.
Book lung A book lung is a type of respiration organ used for atmospheric gas exchange and is found in arachnids, such as scorpions and spiders. Each of these organs is found inside a ventral abdominal cavity and connects with the surroundings through a small opening.
Book music Book Music is a medium for storing the music played on European mechanical organs. Similar to piano rolls, but book music is made from thick cardboard, containing perforated holes representing the musical notes to be played.
Book musical The book musical is a form of musical theater that became the dominant production form during the mid-20th century period that is now considered the "golden age" of the Broadway musical. The "book musical" gained gradual predominance from what were essentially musical revues, basically designed to showcase the work of songwriters, singers, dancers, and spectacular production values, in a series of often unrelated songs.
Book of Abraham The Book of Abraham is a text published as part of the Pearl of Great Price, one of the four canonical scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The text is derived from a set of Egyptian papyri purchased by the church in 1835 from a traveling mummy show.
Book of Advertisements The Book of Advertisements was a series of enactments concerning Anglican ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-1575), with the help of Edmund Grindal, Robert Horne, Richard Cox, and Nicholas Bullingham.
Book of Alorn The Book of Alorn is an historical and semi-religious book belonging to the Alorn people in David Eddings' epic fantasy The Belgariad. Its context includes major events from the creation of the world to the battle of Vo Mimbre, and has been used as background material for many of the Belgariad and Malloreon novels.
Book of Alternative Services The Book of Alternative Services (BAS) is the contemporary, inclusive-language liturgical book used alongside the Book of Common Prayer (1962) (BCP) in a number of parishes of the Anglican Church of Canada. Unlike the BCP, it uses the Revised Common Lectionary.
Book of Assaf The Book of Assaf is the earliest medical book written in Hebrew. According to the book it was written by Assaf (or Assaph) Ben Berhiyahu (son of Birhiyahu) and Johanan Ben Zabda, who lived in Israel between the fourth and sixth century AD.
Book of Baruch The Book of Baruch, occasionally referred to as 1 Baruch, is called a deuterocanonical or apocryphal book of the Bible. Although not in the Hebrew Bible, it is found in the Greek Bible (LXX) and in the Vulgate Bible, and also in Theodotion's versionÂą.
Book of Commandments The Book of Commandments is among the most rare and valuable books in American history because the original printing was almost entirely destroyed by a mob. The book holds special significance for groups in the Latter Day Saint movement (such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
Book of Common Prayer The Book of Common PrayerThe full name of the English Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons. is the foundational prayer book of the Church of England.
Book of Confessions The Book of Confessions is the book of doctrinal statements of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is designated "Part 1" of the PCUSA Constitution. It consists of several ecumenical, Reformed, and modern statements of the Christian faith.
Book of Cool Book of Cool is an award-winning global entertainment format created and owned by London, United Kingdom based producers Ocelot Productions. The main purpose is to publicly provide certain captured film footage of the world’s "coolest" exponents of sports and skills in action, as well as divulging "secrets" of some of the moves.
Book of Daniel The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. The book is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when Jews were deported and exiled to Babylon.
Book of Dede Korkut The Book of Dede Korkut is one of the most famous epics of the Turkmen or the Oghuz Turks. In 2000, "Kitab-i Dede Qorqud" was awarded the UNESCO literary work of the year as a celebration of its 1300th Anniversary.
Book of Discipline The Book of Discipline refers to two works regulative of ecclesiastical order in the Church of Scotland after the Scottish Reformation. They were drawn up by drawn up by John Knox and others on the Geneva model.
Book of Divine Worship The Book of Divine Worship is an adaptation of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) published in 2003. It takes "elements of the Book of Common Prayer [which are] revised and adapted according to the Roman Rite for use by Roman Catholics coming from the Anglican tradition.
Book of Dreams (novel) A comprehensive dream journal published by Jack Kerouac in 1960 that covers all recorded dreams from 1952-1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his books as he sees them in his dreams.
Book of Dzyan The Book of Dzyan (comprising the Stanzas of Dzyan) is reputedly an ancient text, of Tibetan origin. It was the basis for The Secret Doctrine, one of the basic texts of the theosophical movement founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in 1875.
Book of Enoch The Book of Enoch is a title given to several works that attribute themselves to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah; that is, Enoch son of Jared (Genesis 5:18). Enoch is also one of the two people in the Bible taken up to heaven while he is alive, as the Bible says "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.
Book of Ether The Book of Ether is one of the books that make up The Book of Mormon. The Book of Ether tells of an ancient people (the Jaredites), descendants of Jared and his companions who were led by God to the Americas shortly after the destruction of the Tower of Babel.
Book of Ezekiel The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Jewish Hebrew Bible as well as the Christian Old Testament, attributed to the prophet Ezekiel (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל, Standard Tiberian ; "God will strengthen") who is regarded by both Jews and Christians as a prophet.
Book of generations The Book of generations is a partially lost text that the modern documentary hypothesis claims was used by the redactor of the torah to connect up parts of the priestly source and the JE source. The text thus, in the hypothesis, forms part of the torah, in particular, the text is believed to be fragmented across several portions of the text, since it was used as a filler for several joins.
Book of Gates The Book of Gates is an Ancient Egyptian sacred text dating from the New Kingdom. It narrates the passage of a newly deceased soul into the next world, corresponding to the journey of the sun though the underworld during the hours of the night.
Book of hours A book of hours is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Each book of hours is unique in one way or another, but all contain a collection of texts, prayers and psalms, along with appropriate illustrations, to form a reference for Catholic Christian worship and devotion.
Book of Han The Book of Han () is a classic Chinese historical writing covering the history of Western Han from 206 BCE to 25 CE. It is also sometimes called Book of Former Han in order to distinguish it from the Book of Later Han, which covers the Eastern Han from 25 to 220, composed in the 5th century.
Book of Helaman The Book of Helaman is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The book continues the history of the Nephites and the Lamanites "according to the records of Helaman, who was the son of Helaman, and also according to the records of his sons, even down to the coming of Christ" (The Book of Helaman, preface).
Book of HenrykĂłw The Book of HenrykĂłw (, ) is a Latin chronicle of the Cistercian abbey in HenrykĂłw in Lower Silesia. Originally created as a registry of belongings looted by the Mongol raids of 1241, with time it was extended to include the history of the monastery.
Book of Homilies During the English Reformation, Thomas Cranmer and others saw the need for local congregations to be taught a more Reformed theology and practice. Since many priests and deacons were still uneducated, semi-literate and tending toward Roman Catholicism in their theology and practice, it was decided to create a series of sermons to be read out during the church service by the local minister.
Book of Chen The Book of Chen (Traditional Chinese: 陳書; pinyin: Chén Shū) was the official history of the Chinese dynasty Chen Dynasty. It ranks among the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China, and was compiled by the Tang Dynasty historian Yao Silian (姚思廉), completed in 636.
Book of Imaginary Beings Jorge Luis Borges wrote and edited the Book of Imaginary Beings in 1957 as the original Spanish Manual de zoolgia fantastica, or Handbook of Fantastic Zoology, expanding it in 1967 and 1969 to the final El libro de los seres imaginarios. The English edition, created in collaboration with translator Norman Thomas de Giovanni, contains descriptions of 120 mythical beasts from folklore and literature.

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