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New in the Edited Guide: The Unusual Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Almost everything you've heard about this man is wrong. He wasn't mad. He wasn't constantly drunk. His work didn't consist entirely of spooky horror stories and morbid fantasies. He did die under mysterious circumstances, though.
Author: Dmitri Gheorgheni
New in the Edited Guide: The Ultimate Disney MovieToons Animated Film Guide: 2000-2003
By 2000 Disney MovieToons had successfully released two films in the cinema to a modest reception and had an unprecedented success with direct-to-video film 'The Return of Jafar'.
Author: Bluebottle
Topical: Pet Passports
On 28 February it is 20 years since the first Pet Passport was used in the UK, for a dog called Frodo Baggins
Welcome to Create
This month we'd like to invite you to take a journey. Don't panic, you won't need tickets and passports or jabs, not even a satnav!
Look at your home town, local High Street, parks and people...but, see them through a stranger's eyes.
Take photos, write stories, compile an entry for the Edited Guide, you know the drill.
We invite you to look at the familiar with new eyes and show the world all the weird and wonderful stuff on your particular doorstep.
February 2020 Create Challenge: Stranger in a Familiar Land
Newest Edited Entries
- The Unusual Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe24th February 2020
- The Ultimate Disney MovieToons Animated Film Guide: 2000-200324th February 2020
- Gothic in the Wilderness: St Michael, Fryburg, Pennsylvania17th February 2020
- The Ultimate Disney MovieToons Animated Film Guide: 1990-199917th February 2020
- Pollution Detection - the Case of the Garfield Telephones10th February 2020
- Khyber's Kilts and Bristols: Sex, Sexism and Stereotyped Women in the 'Carry On' Films10th February 2020
- A Sin by Any Other Name: Robert W Lee Talks About Racism3rd February 2020
- How to Make a Paper Hedgehog3rd February 2020
- Between Silk and Cyanide: Leo Marks Decodes SOE20th February 2020
- Klara Borstel-Engelsman: In Memoriam27th January 2020
Peer Review
- A87948445 - The View Askewniverse Films by Kevin Smith 2 Days Ago
- A87906388 - 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' - the Film 2 Days Ago
- A87965095 - 'Moondial' - the Television Serial 2 Days Ago
- A87967822 - Slime Moulds 2 Days Ago
- A87971854 - The Last Escaped POW: How Georg Gaertner Spent 40 Years on the Run and Invented a Tennis Racquet 4 Days Ago
The Post
This month's Create theme – 'Strangely Familiar' – applies to much of this week's content. You'll see and read things that give you the shock of recognition, but also make you say, 'I never looked at it that way before.' That's what we're here for.
Latest Activity
paulh. the world is a circus, but why d I have to work without a net?
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho
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SashaQ - happysad and 'slightly mad'
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