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April 10, 2013 05:45 pm PDT
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Life on the Moon as imagined in 1836
In the old days, Mars was peopled by one vast thinking vegetable, and the Moon was peopled by stick-wielding bat-men and moth-winged moon maidens. From the Smithsonian Institute Image Collections: This portfolio of hand-tinted lithographs purports to illustrate the "discovery of life on the moon." In 1836, Richard E. Locke, writing for the New York [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/STJusSpD6lE/story01.htm
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