Marvel Tales and Unusual Stories were two U.S. semi-professional science
fiction magazines published by William L. Crawford, a science fiction
fan who believed that the pulp magazines were too limited in what they
would publish. In 1933, he distributed a flyer for Unusual Stories
(cover pictured), stating that no taboos would prevent the publication
of worthwhile fiction. It included a page from P. Schuyler Miller's
"The Titan", unsellable to professional magazines because of its sexual
content. A partial issue of Unusual Stories was distributed in early
1934, and Crawford launched Marvel Tales in May 1934. Five issues of
Marvel Tales and three of Unusual Stories appeared over two years. They
included Robert E. Howard's "The Garden of Fear", H. P. Lovecraft's
"Celephaïs", and Clifford D. Simak's "The Creator"; the last had
previously been rejected because of its religious theme. By 1936,
Crawford had plans to expand his enterprise, but limited finances meant
that no further issues appeared.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Tales_and_Unusual_Stories>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1930:
Uruguay (captain pictured) defeated Argentina 4–2 at the
Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the inaugural FIFA World Cup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup>
1950:
At the height of a political crisis known as the royal
question, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian Gendarmerie at a
strike in Grâce-Berleur.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_question>
1975:
American labor-union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared after last
being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa>
1981:
Amid a widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland,
up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took part in the largest
of nationwide hunger demonstrations in Łódź.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Polish_hunger_demonstrations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tincture:
1. (transitive)
2. (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something)
with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
3. (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to
add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract
or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
4. (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent
to produce a medicinal tincture.
5. (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tincture>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It doesn't hurt me. Do you want to feel how it feels? Do you
want to know that it doesn't hurt me? Do you want to hear about the
deal that I'm making? You, it's you and me. And if I only could, I'd
make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places, Be running
up that road, Be running up that hill, Be running up that building.
--Kate Bush
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kate_Bush>
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