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Re: strange reference questions



We get a chap who comes in quite often to look at our aerial photographic
collections - looking for medieval zodiac signs on the ground.
Medwyn Parry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia Logan" <jlogan@CHARLESTONMUSEUM.ORG>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: strange reference questions


> I am not making this up ....
>
> Monday, I had a call from a woman seeking further info on a "newspaper"
> article she'd read about a Confederate man who had created a nuclear bomb
> but was killed before he could detonate it.  Being the astute archivist
that
> I am, I surmised that the "newspaper" in question was - you guessed it -
the
> Weekly World News.  For those of you wishing to further your education:
>
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/revelations_story.cfm?instanceid=388
> 40
>
> Then there was the photo researcher for a publishing company that will
> remain nameless, wanting a color photo of the slaves building the Santee
> Canal in the late 18th century.
>
> *******************************
> Julia Logan
> Assistant Archivist - The Charleston Museum
> 360 Meeting Street
> Charleston, SC 29403
> (843) 722-2996 x244
> jlogan@charlestonmuseum.org
> ********************************
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell Baker" <russell.baker@MAIL.STATE.AR.US>
> To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:01 AM
> Subject: strange reference questions
>
>
> > Listers:
> >
> > Here I go again. I am chair of a panel discussion at our upcoming SAA
> > meeting on archival reference services. I am collection "strange"
> "strange"
> > and "stranger" reference questions you might have received. One of my
> > strangest was a man who called seeking the "secret" formula for making a
> > certain kind of hot dog called a "cheese dog", the process of which was
> lost
> > when the inventor was killed in a plane crash. And then there was the
man
> > who came into the Research Room with a live bird on his shoulder ...
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Russell P. Baker, CA
> > Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
> > One Capitol Mall
> > Little Rock, AR 72201
> > 501-682-6900
> > www.ark-ives.com
> > russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>
> >
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