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Catalogue of planetary maps, past and present, highlights our evolving view of our Solar System September 21, 2018 Catalogue of planetary maps, past and present, highlights our evolving view of our Solar System A catalogue that provides an overview of over 2,200 planetary maps produced worldwide between 1600 and 2018 was presented today at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin. The catalogue has been produced by Henrik Hargitai, from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (Hungary), and Mateusz Pitura, from the University of Wroclaw (Poland).“Production of planetary maps started in Europe in the 1600s. It expanded to the...

Phobia catalogue reveals bizarre list of fears By Ben Farmer Last Updated: 6:22pm GMT 10/01/2008 It is enough to give someone an irrational fear of long and faintly improbable-sounding words. In fact according to an exhaustive list of unusual phobias the fear of long words already exists and has a name. A phobia of being tickled with feathers could be rooted in childhood A catalogue of fears unearthed by New Scientist magazine, claims sufferers have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, or sesquippedaliophobia for short, which describes “a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of long words”. The list of hundreds of unlikely irrational fears, which...

I received a bunch of catalogues yesterday and last night my 9 year old grandaughter was thumbing through them.She asked me "What are 101 love positions?. I was stunned. There was a page tucked inside of their catalogue of junk gifts that was on sex stuff.They even showed a vibrator,available in 3 lengths,that is supposedly for back and neck stress.Sure it is!!!! I was enraged that this would be mailed to me along with all the Christmas catalogues that are arriving. I'm no prude but I don't want this type of thing mailed to my home. carolwrightgifts.com will be hearing...

Clothing company withdraws catalogue backing group sex By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 04 December 2003 Putting out a Christmas catalogue stuffed with naked young models having sex is a sure-fire way of attracting attention, which is no doubt what the US retail chain Abercrombie & Fitch was aiming for. But it does seem like an odd way of selling clothes. Yesterday, the company - well known for courting controversy in its effort to become the defining label for suburban teenagers - was trying hard not to sound apologetic even as it pulled its "Christmas Field Guide", with its endorsements...