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Theodor Geisel was born 121 years ago today. I went looking for Seussian bikes:







Half a dozen of his books were withdrawn from publication not long ago for containing "hurtful and wrong" imagery. One of them was On Beyond Zebra!, which introduced additional letters of the alphabet:

The book depicts a character called "Nazzim of Bazzim". Nazzim is "of unspecified nationality". He rides a "Spazzim", a fantasy-creature resembling a camel.

Humpf.

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Miniature railway in Hastings.

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Dolly Parton's husband dies

Parton recalled their first meeting, saying, "I was surprised and delighted that while he talked to me, he looked at my face (a rare thing for me)."

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They don't look so tough.

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Even more impressive than 20-tools-in-1 would be if no two Snowflakes were alike.

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Scene from the medical drama way back when.



I don't remember if he made it. The bike definitely didn't.

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On the right is the apartment building where I lived in the early 90s. My place was the first one up from the ground floor with an air conditioner. This makes it the first floor in the UK; the second, in the US. Here's a peek inside.

The Hudson River is just down the street. Initially I thought that skyscraper in the background was the new World Trade Center, but at a mere 781 feet it barely scrapes into the list of the 100 tallest buildings in the US.