These items are all in the main index, as well. The original premise of this list is explained in the title, above, and no. 1, below. The collection has now evolved a bit into simply a place to put some of the quirky and more unusual items.

There are currently (Jan 10, 2012) 160 entries in this series. Links by number & title:

1.   The Whiffenpoof Song 2.   I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls 3.   Camels 4.   Shape-Shifters & Boston Legal 5.   Frankenstein 6.   The Wonderful Wizard of Chittenango 7.   Artos, Portos, Tom, Jerry & Dumas 8.   A. Christie, Melfi, Malfi, Amalfi & Mozart 9.   Gretna Green, Penelope & Carlo 10.  Algonquins, Seals, Vesuvius & W. Marlow 11. ...except These Songs 12. Tosca & the Queen of Naples 13. Bonnie Prince Jacopo 14. King Arthur 15. The Knights Templar 16. Take Two Saints and Call Me Tomorrow 17. Jelly Beans, Mother Teresa & Mu 18. Bull Fighting in Naples 19. Laurel, Hardy & Fra Diavolo 20. Buffalo Bill 21. The Confederate Flag 22. Brother Volcano, Sister City 23. We Hold these Noodles to be Self-Evident 24. The Man who wrote the US Constitution? 25. The Messiah from Khorgbar 26. Eleanor’s Falcon, Kritarchs & Aragon 27. Fučík, Verdi, Mike & Lola 28. Sherlock Holmes & the Medium of Naples 29. Everybody Loves Lucy 30. Homer, Vico, Naples  & the Ur-Google 31. Essere o non essere... 32. The Great White Fleet 33. Tequila & General Championnet 34. Raiders of the Lost Shroud 35. Musical Instruments & Exploding Heads 36. Joining a Gym on Golden Pool 37. Wherefore Art Thou Illiterate? 38. Magicians & Fortune Tellers 39. Lizards, Leprechauns and Little Monks 40. Outlaw Music 41. Ugliness 42. Cervantes in Naples 43. Hand Gestures & Andrea de Jorio 44. Real Coffee & Gambrinus 45. The Evil Eye (malocchio) 46. Unusual Names 47. Punks on Bikes 48. Highnames and Bynames 49. Dog Sitting 50. The Swiss in Naples 51. The Semiotics of Pizza 52. Movie Star Dogs 53. Joining a Monastery 54. Ancient Comedy Clubs 55. Bubalus Bubalis 56. The Great Race of 1908 57. Halloween & the Witches of Benevento 58. Russian Horses 59. Casanova in Naples 60. Copyright Laws 61. Alfred Krupp & via Krupp on Capri 62. Archaic Units of Measure 63. Ghost Towns 64. The Grand Tour 65. Driving Miss Godzilla 66. Increasing the Size of Your Ad! 67. The Bearded Lady of Naples 68. Tiberius, a fish story 69. The Big Rock Cockayne Mountain 70. Virgins 71. Mon(n)a Lisa 72. Neo-Realism 73. Fighting for Two Souths 74. Marie d'Enghien 75. Secret Tunnels! 76. The Gentle Street Scam 77. The Raspberry, Bronx Cheer 78. Zeppelin attack on Naples! 79. English forts on Capri 80. Baloney 81. Nestor's Cup

82. The Castrati 83. Roy. G. Biv, Housepainter 84. Luck, Wine & Doo-doo 85. Gaudí, Viola & Ischia 86. Abu Tabela & Afghanistan 87. The Tale of Tales 88. Bird symbolism & Amalfi 89. Odessa, the forgotten ship 90. Just another old castle 91. La Mortella gardens on Ischia 92. The Devil's Footprints 93. The Royal Poorhouse 94. The Nile in Naples 95. Caves & Tunnels 96. Votive wall shrines 97. Crooked streets 98. Confusing statues 99. The Fjord of Furore 100. Graffiti 101. St. Joseph's genitals 102. The feminiello 103. Culture of Death 104. The 'Sails' of Scampia 105. The Fontanelle ossuary 106. ...but the Architrave lingers on 107. Taxis, Petty Theft & Muggings 108. Yiddish & Pizza 109. No noir is good noir 110. La smorfia 111. Two Things that are gone 112. "Scopa!" 113. Land of Work? 114. Paleo-Christianity in Naples 115. The Rock of Hercules 116. Proud to be a Troglodyte 117. Academia Secretorum Naturae 118. Megaliths 119. The Waters of Chiatamone 120. The Spanish Quarter 121. Roman fast-food! 122. Neapolitans in Milan (film) 123. The Neapolitan mandolin 124. The ex-Military Hospital 125. wine, names of wine & wine pest 126. Of Ships & Sails & Water Cabs 127. The Guitar in Naples 128. Symbols of Naples 129. Mt. Echia 130. The musical soap 131. The scrolls in the villa 132. Bank Robbers & Latin 133. Halloween 134. The change to the euro 135. Getting by & Bureaucracy 136. The Wishing Tree 137. Mummies & evil spirits 138. Leon Jessel, Betty Boop, & Totò 139. Anacapri 140. Mythical train stations 141. Health Care & Thomas Aquinas 142. The Missing Scientist, Ettore Majorana 143. Malta 144. Johann Sebastian Bach 145. The Cruise 146. Myths: Urban, Euro & Napo 147. The Manfred Who Would Be King 148. Lucky Luciano 149. Did the Bourbons Come from Troy? 150. Carmina Burana & the Wheel of Fortune 151. Shades of Venice & Persia! 152. in-F.A.Q.s about Ponza 153. The Khedive's Neapolitan Villa 154. Jung, Spielrein & C.G. Carus 155. Idiot's Guide to Classical Iconography 156. Lake Fusaro, Hell-Hounds & Hunting Lodges 157. Baia, Baths & Cimmerian Darkness 158. The Italian Wars & the 3-body Problem 159. The Chimp & I 160. Lo Guarracino

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