"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
09/29/2015 at 11:15 • Filed to: None
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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
09/29/2015 at 11:15 • Filed to: None | 3
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of the wonderful things my University has is a MASSIVE and old library. Well while I wondering through it today I found this, a copy of Elizabeth Browning’s “A Drama of Exile”. Just out of curiosity I tried to find a publish date, it didn’t exist, it was printed anywhere on there. But then I saw the LSU stamp on it, it was donated to the library in 1871! God knows how long the previous owner had it before. It’s strange to think that what you’re holding is 144 year old book that was created over 40 years before the start of WW1.
Wacko
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 11:20 |
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dude go outside and hold a rock. That rock is several million years old.
other that that you got me beat. Don’t think i ever touched a man made object older than about 100 years.
Patrick Nichols
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 11:21 |
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Talk to the librarians, they are usually super nice and excited any time anyone wants to know about some of their books. My college has a few different rooms in the library that are locked, but they are more than willing to give you a tour or help you get to a certain book. It being an old Catholic college with a monastery on campus, the book collections were pretty amazing. I can’t remember how old their oldest book is, but there is a good amount from the Renaissance IIRC.
Bandit
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 11:27 |
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I was browsing through my Physics library and read a page of a German text that was printed in 1858. Crazy to think it was pre American civil war
Sam
> Bandit
09/29/2015 at 11:31 |
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Not only that, but Germany didn’t even exist for another 13 years.
Punk_Girl_98
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 11:37 |
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Oh wow, that’s old!
Mattbob
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 11:38 |
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I picked up a rock one time. JK, thats cool. I have a biology/science book from the 30’s and I thought that was cool.
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Bandit
> Sam
09/29/2015 at 11:39 |
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Which is just awesome. It was in the technical library in Vienna before coming to Indiana God knows when.
LongbowMkII
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 11:44 |
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apparently as a kid I touched the liberty bell. oops.
Captain of the Enterprise
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 11:48 |
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Are you naked in this photo?
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Anon
> Captain of the Enterprise
09/29/2015 at 11:56 |
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Sadly no, I’m sitting cross legged, you can see my shorts in the bottom left hand corner.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 12:36 |
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Please tell me that isn’t your nutsack...
cazzyodo
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 12:49 |
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My mom has a copy of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in her china cabinet that was printed shortly after publication. Not as old as what you found but pre-1900. Blew my mind.
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Captain of the Enterprise
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 12:50 |
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Ah, I see it now. Carry on
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Anon
09/29/2015 at 13:13 |
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I grew up in a house built in the late 1700s.
But you can’t hold a house, can you?