
Feel like launching something? This very well done 174pp, soft-cover book--"The Art of the Catapult," from Chicago Review Press--is full of history, lore and detailed building instructions for all of your better siege engines: ballistae, onagers, trebuchets and catapults. Quite suitable for those medieval school projects. The peace-loving bonus at the end contains instructions for making a "basket-pult," a table top basketball game, complete with backboard. By William Gurstulle.
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92822 ART OF CATAPULT |
You can't start them too young on visual fantasies. Get this cute pair of small (5-7/8" long x 1-3/4" dia) plastic kaleidoscopes with cartoon animals on the outside and brightly colored geometric shapes making happy patterns on the inside. For age two and up.
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36762 KALEIDOSCOPE |
Actually, it's a set of (36) different little polished gemstones and minerals from around the world, all identical sizes (1/2" x 3/8" x 1/8" thick), mounted and identified by name and origin on an 8" x 10" card. Super nice at a super price, for teachers, designers or jewelry makers. The set includes amazonite, amethyst, aventurine, black obsidian, blue lace agate, buttermilk jasper, carnelian, Dalmatian dacite, dumortierite, fancy jasper, fluorite, gold stone, hematite, howlite, jadeite, lapis, leopard skin jasper, mahogany,obsidian, moss agate, nephrite, Picasso jasper, orange calcite, picture jasper, rainbow jasper, rose quartz, rhodonite, rock crystal, rhyolite, red jasper, snowflake obsidian, sodalite, serpentine, tiger eye stone, turquoise and unakite.
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92883 SAMPLE GEMSTONE |
They've reinvent the paper clip! The old ones were so awfully dull. These are in snazzy jewel tones, with a plastic case over a set of tiny metal jaws. Slide out the metal jaws, stick the paper inside and push the plastic sleeve to clamp them on. You'll get an assortment of red, deep blue and purple, 3/4" across x 1/2 thick.
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37189 COLORFUL CLIPS |
Straight from the hand of Nature, and Scott Resources, comes this boxed collection of (15) fluorescent mineral specimens. Shine an ordinary blacklight on them and watch them glow in the dark. Includes interesting 1" to 1-1/2" specimens of hackmanite, turritella agate, aragonite, travertine, willemite, resinous coal, selenite gypsum, zeolite in Wyomingite, fluorite, calcite, dinosaur bone, scapolite var. Wernerite, fossil algae, coquina, and hanksite, all in a divided box with a fact sheet. Very nice collection.
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93007 FLUOR MINERALS |
Find yourself losing track of time? Same here. You need this nice little round desktop doohickey. Tells you the day/month/year, hour/min/sec, and has a month-at-a-glance calendar in-between. Silver and either grey, green, blue or orange plastic (we'll pick one). It measures 4-1/4" dia x 1-5/8" thick at the base, with a 2-1/8" x 1-1/8" backlit LCD screen, and comes with (2) "AAA" batteries.
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36889 DESK CLOCK |
This extremely cute, snap-together Creative Hands® play set features a nattily-hatted, 3-1/2" tall pressed-foam farmer, his soft red barn, flexible white picket foam fence and his cooshy livestock collection, with a 1" chicken, 1-3/8" pink pig, 2-1/2" cow, and 3" horse. The barn stands over 9" tall, with foam hay sticking out of the loft. The textured, pressed-foam pieces require very minimal assembly skills, so it's just the ticket for the littler kiddles. Moo.
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37237 FOAM FARM |
Finally! Stereo headphones that snuggle around the nape of your neck instead of messing up your coif. You pick from a pair of low-impedance, clean-sounding, 36-ohm headphones made by Jensen and bearing their logo, with 4-foot leads and the standard 1/8" miniplug to fit most all devices. Or the logo-free versions that are just, well, logo-free (and a buck cheaper).
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37003 JENSEN® HEADPHONES | |
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37353 NO LOGO HEADPHONES |
I flung my bug into the air.
It fell to earth in sister’s hair.
Her look was cold, invectives rang.
I never should have flang that thang!
Reach out with one of these stretchy, sticky toys and touch someone, like your sister, or one of her squeamish friends. With practice, you can grab a paper from a desk several feet away. We don’t want to make extravagant claims, but even the snake’s little 1/2” long forked tongue stretches to 6” before it snaps back to its original shape. The blue snake is 15” long, and can cling to – and crawl down – a glass surface. The neon–yellow butterfly is about 2” long, and on a 10” string of the same stretchy goop, and have 3” plastic handles for better flinging. Our package of (2) ensures that you’ll have a spare after the first one is confiscated.
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33288 STICKY BUTTERFLY | |
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33287 STICKY SNAKE |
And hang up your keys on this Crockery Barn-worthy organizer. Clean lines in black and white make this the most attractive magnetic dry-erase board and key-keeper we've ever seen. The 11-1/2" X 14" black wood frame holds a 9" x 9" white dry-erase board with a small ledge on the bottom to hold the marker (included) with (3) chrome key hooks underneath. Includes (3) 1-1/8" button magnets for holding paper notes.
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37615 HOME ORGANIZER |
From Lucent Books' series "Endangered Animals and Habitats," these hard-cover books, all 112pp, are heavily illustrated with B/W photos and drawings, and geared for a high school or bright junior high audience. Originally priced at over $20, they are dense with information, and include good indexes and bibliographies. You pick from among "Frogs and Toads," Owls," The Wetlands," and "Penguins."
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37678 "FROGS & TOADS" | |
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37679 "OWLS" |
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37681 "PENGUINS" | |
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37680 "THE WETLANDS" |
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