In the course of the research for my book, I discovered that (gasp), the real James Bond was a closet bird-watcher (or he slept with one). On one of Mary Wickham Bond’s notepads for the summer of 1956, I found
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The Philadelphia Inquirer posted an article online about more than 1,500 migrating birds killed in Philadelphia one night last week when they flew into skyscrapers. (You can read it here.)James Bond ANSP Archives Coll. 457 When I heard the news,
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You can order a signed and inscribed copy of The Real James Bond two ways. Send $30 to Jim via PayPal or send a check to: Jim Wright 498 Franklin Tpke. Allendale, NJ 07401. Sale proceeds go to The Lee
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When I was going through the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Mary Wickham Bond archives, I came across some bizarre stuff. Exhibit A is this 1972 bill from a London dentist — for 6.3 pounds. The language is wonderfully old-fashioned. They
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A Science Times section in The New York Times earlier this year featured an article about a Solenodon, an incredible creature native to the West Indies. As Veronica Greenwood wrote: “About the size of a guinea pig, it has a
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I wrote an article on the birds of 007 — all the glorious birds in Ian Fleming’s fiction and what they signified — for the British magazine Bird Watching, and it’s now on sale over there. Bird Waching Magazine CoverThe
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