Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn
When the existence of unicorns, and the curative powers of the horns ascribed to them, began to be questioned, one Danish physician pushed back through curious means — by reframing the unicorn as an aquatic creature of the northern seas. Natalie Lawrence on a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy.
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#NationalUnicornDay! Best wishes, and many carrots, to all the unicorns out there!
Happy
#UnicornDay! A fine time to delve into @the_manticore_'s essay "Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn", which explores a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy....
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/greenland-unicorns-and-the-magical-alicorn #NationalUnicornDay"To be clear, this is not a real unicorn." - LIZZIE PEABODY, Zoo's Clues, Sidedoor
#Sidedoor #NationalUnicornDay #LizziePeabody“What the hell do the love letters of that old fraud H.P. Lovecraft have to do with the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs?”
A slight departure for National Unicorn Day – the Hugo Award-winning novella “Equoid” by Charles Stross @cstross
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Equoid - Reactor
Winner of the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Charles Stross's "Equoid" is a new story in his ongoing "Laundry" series of Lovecraftian secret-agent bureaucratic dark comedies, which has now grown to encompass four novels and several works of short fiction. "The Laundry" is the code name for the secret British governmental agency whose remit is to guard the realm from occult threats from beyond spacetime. Entailing mastery of grimoires and also of various computer operating systems, the work is often nose-bleedingly tedious. As the front-cover copy line for Ace's edition of The Atrocity Archives noted, "Saving the world is Bob Howard's job. There are a surprising number of meetings involved." Previous "Laundry" stories on Tor.com are "Down on the Farm" and the Hugo Award finalist "Overtime."
Happy National Unicorn Day! TIL that unicorns have been featured in human art since 2000 B.C.
Knit unicorns with knitting patterns like these from my unicorn post
https://intheloopknitting.com/unicorn-knitting-patterns.php
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