{"id":2162,"date":"2009-11-23T08:59:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-obsessed-with-studs\/"},"modified":"2009-11-23T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:02:11","slug":"j-edgar-hoover-obsessed-with-studs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/23\/j-edgar-hoover-obsessed-with-studs\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Rescued From 40 Years In The Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/religioncompass.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/man_is_but_a_worm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">from AFP via Google News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\" id=\"hn-headline\">Rare Charles Darwin book in toilet in Britain<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: #676767; border-width: 0px\" class=\"hn-byline\">(AFP) \u2013\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" class=\"hn-date\">16 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">LONDON \u2014 A first edition of Charles Darwin&#8217;s seminal &#8220;On the Origin of Species&#8221; will be sold this week after it was found in a family&#8217;s toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/man_is_but_a_worm.jpg\" title=\"man_is_but_a_worm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/man_is_but_a_worm.jpg\" alt=\"man_is_but_a_worm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">The book, which was first printed in 1859, was bought by a family for just a few shillings in a shop about 40 years ago, Christie&#8217;s auction house said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">The family has since kept the work on a bookcase in the guest lavatory at their home in the Oxford area, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">The book will go under the hammer in London on Tuesday, to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of the father of the theory of evolution&#8217;s famous work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">The book, about 1,250 copies of which were first printed, is expected to fetch 60,000 pounds (66,000 euros, 99,000 dollars).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">He realised the book in the toilet was something special, matching the binding of the work in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5h-AA11NDInkwPqU7N0Er8sKs0MHA\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full AFP article at Google News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AFP via Google News Rare Charles Darwin book in toilet in Britain (AFP) \u2013\u00a016 hours ago LONDON \u2014 A first edition of Charles Darwin&#8217;s seminal &#8220;On the Origin of Species&#8221; will be sold this week after it was found in a family&#8217;s toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said Sunday. 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