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I’m making you an Orffer you can’t refuse.

The Always Amazing Allison is a source of countless cool things; she most recently turned me on to Carl Orff’s 1936 cantata, Carmina Burana — named after the eponymous medieval poetry collection.

It is excellent writing music.

Check it out here on Youtube.



The “Rota Fortunae” “(Wheel of Fortune”) from the Codex Buranus, circa 1230

Poster for “The Walking Dead” (1936)

Warner Bros. Pictures.   This film obviously has no relationship with AMC’s modern “The Walking Dead” or its comic book source material.

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Cover to “Amazing Stories,” Leo Morey, December 1936

Teck Publishing.

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Detail from Vimy Ridge World War I Memorial

Vimy, France.  Memorial designed by  Walter Seymour Allward, circa 1936.

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Photo credit: By Cbone (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

Cover of “Amazing Stories,” Leo Morey, August 1936

Teck Publishing.

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