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[rob_the_robgoblin]

Yeah I ordered mine direct. They send them at the beginning of the week.

However, later orders might take longer.

[Hammers]

Found a wonderful stack of old magazines in a antique store here in Visby. The pamphlets date back to 1908-1909 and is full of illustrations from that boisterous time in the beginning of the last century. Two examples:



Captition reads: 'Europeans in India inperil'



'The Prince of Wales opens the new naval port at Dover'

[The Somnambulist]

Got this, finshed the game and all the additions a while ago, bought it more for reference material.

[traveller]

Found a wonderful stack of old magazines in a antique store here in Visby. The pamphlets date back to 1908-1909 and is full of illustrations from that boisterous time in the beginning of the last century. Two examples:



Captition reads: 'Europeans in India inperil'



'The Prince of Wales opens the new naval port at Dover'

Cool! I have hundreds of Allers Journal bound into hardbacks. with some historicals content, but you seem to have found a more warlike supplement. Congratulations!

[Hammers]

Cool! I have hundreds of Allers Journal bound into hardbacks. with some historicals content, but you seem to have found a more warlike supplement. Congratulations!

I got hold of about a hundred sheets and they are all about the various doings of various royals and the maneuvers of national armies. Quite a fun read. This is from the day when royals were the equivalent of the reality show stars of today.

[Hammers]

Hammers
So..dickheads then?

I think it is safe to say so, yes. I think it was proven by the Great War, don't you agree?

[Calimero]

I think it is safe to say so, yes. I think it was proven by the Great War, don't you agree?

That’s what happen when you’re marrying your cousin…

[former user]

"T&T Colonial Supplement", THX again Driscoles

already played a scenario to test it, report will come

[carlos marighela]

Found a wonderful stack of old magazines in a antique store here in Visby. The pamphlets date back to 1908-1909 and is full of illustrations from that boisterous time in the beginning of the last century.

I think the magazines in my doctor's waiting room date from around that time, I must take a closer look in the pile next time.

[Poiter50]

"A matter of time" by Alex Capus as mentioned on this forum recently
Osprey Khe Sanh - a simmering interest in Nam provoked by TFL Charlie Don't Surf.

[S J Donovan]

"Thomas Riley, a Steampunk novel" by Nick Valentino 60 pages into it and it's not bad.

[carlos marighela]

We used to have a family doctor who was so old when he took the Hippocratic oath I am sure it was the author he made it to. We did change when he got his birthday telegram from the Queen.

When I was at school we teacher whose nickname was "Dogger" Banks. He was of sufficient vintage that the 1915 naval battle was still a living memory, indeed probably quite a fresh one when his nickname was coined. Actually he wasn't the most aged. There was a relief/ remedial maths teacher in his nineties (I do not exaggerate, he had officially retired some 30 odd years beforehand). Poor old sod taught on the other side of the cricket oval and by the time he had waddled over to the common room at lunch he just about had time to waddle back to the classroom. Universally known as 'The Penguin'. There was a nauseating adherence to the 'Mr Chips' ethic at my old school. Still, with very few exceptions, they didn't bugger their charges, so one shoud be grateful for small mercies.

[JollyBob]

Following Westfalia Chris's lead, I also checke dout our local Works yesterday and picked up "When Comics Went to War", along with





and



Last one's worth it for the illustrations alone. 

[Hammers]

Stonking read, that.

[JollyBob]

I already had and enjoyed the graphic novel adaptation of it, so I wanted to read the original too. For two quid, I don't reallty mind if its not as good.

Forgot, I also picked this up over the weekend:




Scabrous.

Ashamed to say I found it quite funny.