Chess Endings From Modern Master-Play-by Jacques Mieses Purchase through Amazon Jakob Mieses was born in 1865 in Leipzig, Germany. He enjoyed a long lasting professional chess career of 64 years. Mieses played in numerous tournaments throughout his life, and was known and studied as having a very aggressive, and at the same time, rather traditional playing style. He lived…Read more Chess Endings From Modern Master-Play
Gilded Play: Mary J. Jacques’s Pranks and Pastimes-Purchase through Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Devin Proctor During America’s late nineteenth-century, parlor games were a dominant leisure activity of the upper classes. The ‘Gilded Age,’ as Mark Twain termed it, was characterized by the separation between leisurely wealth and the harsh existence of the underclasses, cleft even wider with…Read more Gilded Play: Mary J. Jacques’s Pranks and Pastimes
Miscellaneous Conjuring Tricks, From ‘Modern Magic’-by Professor Hoffman Purchase through Amazon Magic is, by nature, a rather secretive field. One of the first people to write in detail about various tricks, methods and devices used to perform magic was Professor Hoffmann. His articles were considered pioneering in the field, particularly among English speakers. He became known as an expert, although…Read more Miscellaneous Conjuring Tricks, From ‘Modern Magic’
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The Handbook of Conundrums-by Edith B. Ordway Purchase through Amazon Edith Bertha Ordway had a witty way with words. In this work, The Handbook of Conundrums, she offers hundreds of perplexing problems, puns, jokes and head-scratchers. Fans of bad jokes and surprising twists will enjoy this work. Ordway composed The Etiquette of Today (1913), The Opera Book (1915),…Read more The Handbook of Conundrums
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