pendrift.bsky.social
Polyglot, gadabout, catalyst, bullet dodger. Et puis voilà. She/her.
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I had the same reaction.
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At 694m, the Signal de Botrange, in the High Fens, is the highest point in Belgium. In 1923 a glorified staircase called the Butte Baltia (i.e. Baltia Mound) was built there so visitors could reach 700m.
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The antibiotic erythromycin was first isolated by Filipino scientist Abelardo Aguilar from soil samples from Iloilo, and was launched commercially by Eli Lilly in 1952 as Ilosone. (It was also marketed as Ilotycin.) Aguilar was never credited, nor did he receive royalties for the discovery.
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Iloilo City is the first and only UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in the Philippines. Also the first city to have a department store, and the first outside Manila to have electricity, the telephone, telegraph, railway, an ice plant, and cars.
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The zoo owner stated elseweb that they were never contacted directly (but would have refused had that been the case.) Meanwhile antivenom was secured from other sources.
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(I hasten to add that I've never had to index anything myself. I just gawp. And am occasionally allowed to tweak.)
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But why no page number?
Because all those entries refer to a single sheet.
The highlighted ones came from "[...]goats and sheep are pastured for their hair and wool which fetch high prices[...]."
Comprehensive!
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I'll let you be the judge of that.
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Need to check, but I'm pretty sure I can still get my hands on a few copies.
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The manuscript didn't call for this kind of index either, which makes it all the more remarkable.
Oh, and did I mention that the index page numbers don't refer to the pages of the book it's indexing?
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Then again, it was unforgettable, as @evilrooster.bsky.social can attest.
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Creating a well-crafted index is much more satisfying than gawping helplessly at a terrible one that you're not allowed to fix.
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Does @akasylvia.bsky.social want to be on this list?
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Could you please add me (again)? Thank you!
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Oh, thank you for doing this, Xopher!
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with an ampersand, even.
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Winsor and Newton!