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Odd this day

15 November 2004

5d ago

BBC News website screenshot: Woman ‘blessed by the holy toast’ — A piece of cheese on toast purportedly showing the Virgin Mary. A half-eaten slice of elderly cheese on toast purportedly showing the image of the Virgin Mary has attracted 100,000 hits on the eBay auction website. A Florida woman put the sandwich up for sale, saying it has brought her great luck since she found it 10 years ago. eBay originally withdrew the item, suspecting it might be a joke.

5d ago

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Odd this day

12 November 1846

Nov 12

Ronald Lacey in ecclesiastical garb, brandishing a red-hot poker as the baby-eating bishop of Bath and Wells in Black Adder II

Nov 12

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Odd this day

10 November 1620

Nov 10

Ninon de l’Enclos, painted in 1827 (i.e. over a century after her death) by Louis-Marie Lanté — a woman in an elaborate red and green dress, with her dark hair in ringlets

Nov 10

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Odd this day

5 November 1946

Nov 5

Two men in uniform stand either side of a woman with a remarkable flowery hat. They all seem more or less pleased to be cutting into a ceremonial cake — one which would be unremarkable and round, were it not for the enormous, fluffy atomic-style mushroom cloud emerging from its top. Wikipedia’s caption explains that this is Vice Admiral Blandy and his wife cutting the cake while Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry looks on.

Nov 5

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Odd this day

2 November, various years from 1862 onwards

Nov 2

b/w photo from The Londonist (see link below): Somebody standing on a path through a wood wearing a sheet, pretending to be a ghost

Nov 2

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Odd this day

28 October 1997

Oct 28

One of the less nasty photos from the urologist who claims to have removed this fish from some poor chap’s old chap — it depicts a long, thin, dead fish, lying on a bit of green fabric, presumably in an operating theatre, and is labelled “Photo by Anoar Samad” and dated 28 10 ’97.

Oct 28

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Odd this day

23 October 1943

Oct 23

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Oct 23

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Odd this day

22 October 1707

Oct 22

Contemporary pamphlet featuring a rudimentary woodcut of a naval officer in a wig with ships sinking behind him. It is titled The Life and Actions of Sir Cloudeſly Shovel, Kt.

Oct 22

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Odd this day

16 October 1869

Oct 16

Contemporary photo of the giant where it was found, an image now held in the Library of Congress. Shows a white stone humanoid figure lying on its back on dark ground, strewn with leaves. Next to it lies what looks like a felled tree. In the words of Smithsonian magazine, it is “posed with a branch tastefully obscuring his genitals”.

Oct 16

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Odd this day

14 October 1985

Oct 14

Odd this day

Oct 14

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