Tag Archives: Carrier Pigeon

“SHERALEE, COME BACK TO ME.”

By Raji Singh In honor of National Pet Appreciation Week, a loving pet tribute from our archives: ARCHIVING THE ONCE-RENOWNED FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Rustling through my great-great grandfather, publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction’s artifacts, I come across a miniature … Continue reading

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THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART II: WHAT CHILDS ARE THESE?

by Raji Singh    (continued from last week) Abracadabra, Magi!  Appearing from seemingly out of nowhere in the desolate desert-scape, three kingly wise men:  Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar.  They’ve a star to direct them as they goad their camels across … Continue reading

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THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809, PART I

by Raji Singh      Steven Spielberg’s excellent portraying of America’s 16th President omits – probably because of cinematic time constraints – dramatic events of Abraham Lincoln’s Kentucky log cabin birth.  Those events relate directly to Charles Darwin’s birth in England … Continue reading

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ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY

By Raji Singh Technique and style observations about Fiction’s chief writer, William ‘Golden Boy’ Golden: Influenced by Sophocles and Shakespeare, Golden often anthropomorphized characters.  Two of his favorites were the sun, a distinctively British bloke, and his ‘lie-dy’, the moon.  … Continue reading

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SHERALEE, YOU’VE COME BACK TO ME

By Raji Singh  (Archiving the Fiction House…) “Messages, Sheralee and the other heroic carrier pigeons delivered in their Abolitionist flights, led to a victory in our Abolitionist fight.”  James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction Blackjack reaches across the shadows of time and … Continue reading

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“SHERALEE, COME BACK TO ME.”

By Raji Singh ARCHIVING THE ONCE-RENOWNED FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Rustling through my great-great grandfather, publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction’s artifacts, I come across a miniature pine coffin, hardly bigger than a jewelry box.  It’s simple, the kind that entombed … Continue reading

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No. 20: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART II: WHAT CHILDS ARE THESE?

by Raji Singh    (continued from last week) Abracadabra, Magi!  Appearing from seemingly out of nowhere in the desolate desert-scape, three kingly wise men:  Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar.  They’ve a star to direct them as they goad their camels across … Continue reading

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No. 19: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART I.

by Raji Singh      Steven Spielberg’s excellent portraying of America’s 16th President omits – probably because of cinematic time constraints – dramatic events of Abraham Lincoln’s Kentucky log cabin birth.  Those events relate directly to Charles Darwin’s birth in England … Continue reading

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No. 5: SHERALEE, YOU’VE COME BACK TO ME

By Raji Singh “Messages, Sheralee and the other heroic carrier pigeons delivered in their Abolitionist flights, led to a victory in our Abolitionist fight.”  James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction Blackjack reaches across the shadows of time and puts his hand on … Continue reading

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No. 4: “SHERALEE, COME BACK TO ME.”

By Raji Singh ARCHIVING THE ONCE-RENOWNED FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Rustling through my great-great grandfather, publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction’s artifacts, I come across a miniature pine coffin, hardly bigger than a jewelry box.  It’s simple, the kind that entombed … Continue reading

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