Archive for May, 2011

King Solomon’s Mines

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
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Extraordinary Adventure 61 There is so much adventure in this little bestseller that it’s hard to know where to start.  It’s rumored that this is the story that kicked off an entire genre of adventure quest novels, though it was itself written as a bet, to prove that its author, one Sir H. Rider Haggard, [...]

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Toy Story

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Posted in 100 Extraordinary Adventures

Extraordinary Adventure 62 It started out as just a pitch, an idea to expand the animated short “Tin Toy” into a Christmas special. The mad computer animation wizards in a company called Pixar Animation Wizards had decided to call it “A Tin Toy Christmas.” After many writers, and rewriters, and underwriters, and copywriters it eventually [...]

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