Breen Daughter's Book Going to Print

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Daughter offamed sci-fi author reveals sexual horrors she suffered growing up in LGBT home(https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-14-daughter-of-famed-sci-fi-author-reveals-sexual-horrors-she-suffered-growing-up-in-lgbt-home.html)

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NEW BOOK: THE LAST CLOSET (https://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n01a04.html)

Bulgari Coin Watches

Exploring ways to bring material interest to a watch dial is as old as timekeeping itself. And one of the most interesting ways to add facevalue has been using coins - either as a dial or as the entire case. Rare versions of pocket and wristwatches from Patek Philippe, VacheronConstantin and Audemars Piguet featuring currencies from the US, Switzerland, France and Mexico have all raised their heads at auction.

Piaget's acclaimed Dalí D'or watches and jewellery use the coins Salvador Dalí minted in the 1960s and 1970s incorporating like-nesses ofhimself and his wife Gala. Among the most prolific are the Corum Coin Watches using gold dollar coins and worn by US presidents including RichardNixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Even Andy Warhol had a Corum Coin Watch in his celebrated collection.

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Bulgari celebrates ancientcoins as old as 337AD with its new Octo Romana Monete watch(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/watches/bulgari-celebrates-ancient-coins-old-337ad-new-octo-romana-monete/)

Venezuela's Secret Gold Shipments

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is selling off his country's gold reserves. Some of it has passed through a secretiveoperation in East Africa, a gambit that evades U.S. sanctions.

On two early-March flights, at least 7.4 tons of gold with a market value over $300 million moved from Venezuela to a refinery in Uganda, sayofficials in Venezuela and Uganda, a foreign diplomat and Venezuelan opposition lawmakers, who have concluded Mr. Maduro's government exported theingots.

The gold arrived on a Russian charter jetliner in two shipments at the international airport in Entebbe, says Ugandan national-police spokesmanFred Enanga. The accompanying paperwork identified the ingots, some with stamped labels partially scratched off, as Venezuelan central-bank property,says a senior Ugandan police officer who saw the bars and documents. Flight records show the trips originated in Caracas, Venezuela.

The shipments expose one link in a global underground economy many suspect is helping Mr. Maduro cling to power by bypassing the U.S.-dominatedinternational finance system.

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How 7.4 Tons of Venezuela's GoldLanded in Africa-and Vanished (https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-7-4-tons-of-venezuelas-gold-landed-in-africaand-vanished-11560867792)

The Maven Game

By the time Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill are long gone, we'll be enjoying long-hiatus sequels featuring septuagenarian Daisy Ridley using theForce to fetch her slippers.

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perpetual stew (https://mavengame.com/2019/06/perpetual-stew/)

Movable Type: A Chinese Invention

The printing press is often said to have been created by Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, around 1440 AD, and it began taking root in Europe in the1450s with the printing of the aforementioned Bible. Books themselves had been present in Europe long before then, of course, but only in hand-copiedvolumes that were accessible mainly to members of the clergy. Access to mass-produced books revolutionized Europe in the late 1400s, with advancingliteracy altering religion, politics, and lifestyles worldwide.

At least, this is how the story is rendered in most books, including, for the most part, The Lost Gutenberg. But a single sentence late in thebook nods to a much longer story before that: "Movable type was an 11th-century Chinese invention, refined in Korea in 1230, before meetingconditions in Europe that would allow it to flourish-in Europe, in Gutenberg's time."

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So, Gutenberg Didn't Actually Invent the Printing Press(https://lithub.com/so-gutenberg-didnt-actually-invent-the-printing-press/)