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This audio player will play a radio broadcast from WNYC. They are “talking about stumbling upon the past in unlikely places”.

They start out on top of a landfill in New York, discussing the history that is contained inside.Then they talk about a place in Egypt, where two Oxford Archaeologists in the late 1800’s found some sand dunes that looked irregular compared to the other ones in the area. They found the “mother load … of rubbish heaps”, that are as old as 10 centuries old. They found thousands of pieces of papers in the trash heaps. The most amazing part of this, is that historians are still piecing the papers back together. In one century, they have pieced together 1% of the pieces.The audio is from WYNC Detective Stories.

Side Note: Wouldn’t it be amazing if I had letters like that to post on this site!!

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For my birthday My girlfriend helped me buy some new letters for the site.  The description from the ebay auction is below:

“SO MUCH HISTORY HERE FROM ALL OVER TENN.,AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES.HANDWRITTEN/LEGAL,PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE.CAME FROM AN ATTY NAMED C.J.CULLOM,APPEARS HE HAD COURT CASES OVER THE PLACE.MANY ARE QUITE INTERESTING.HAVE NOT READ MOST OF IT.100′S OF LETTERS, DCUMENTS, SIGNATURES, STAMPS AND COVERS FROM VARIOUS PLACES AS WELL. HUGE LOT THAT WILL TAKE MONTHS TO READ AND RESEARCH ALL OF THIS STUFF.WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO START TELLING YOU OF WHAT YOU MIGHT FIND IN HERE.MAYBE LONG LOST FAMILY MEMBERS.ANYONE COULD HAVE SIGNED OR WRITTEN THIS LARGE LOT OF ITEMS FROM MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.WILL NOT GO WRONG ON THIS LOT! THIS IS YOUR BIG CHANCE TO OWN REAL LIVE HISTORY HERE!!!  WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS ONE.OWN THIS LARGE LOT OF PIECES OF HISTORY! THIS IS IN VERY NICE CONDITION.DATED FROM 1902-1920′S. 80 YEARS OF ACCUMULATION HERE! SIZES OF EACH LETTER OR DOCUMENT VARIES.A GREAT LOT OF PIECES OF REFERENCING MATERIAL.GREAT VINTAGE  ITEMS YOU DO NOT SEE TODAY! MORE TO SEE THEN MEETS THE EYE WITH THIS IN FRONT OF YOU! OVERALL A RARE PIECE OF PAPER I WOULD IMAGINE! COST TO SHIP IS 12.00  IN AMERICA AND INCLUDES SHIPPING HANDLING DELIVERY CONFIRMATION SLIP.OVERSEAS IS 45.00 PLEASE.GOD BLESS YOU THIS WEEK! “

I am very excited to go through these letters and get them ready for the site.  Usually I organize them by date, and then I will scan and post them as I they make it through the line of letters  to post.

Here are the pictures from the ebay post we found them on:

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I was trying to find letters to get this site started. So I thought, ah hell lets try ebay. To my excitement, I found hundreds of letters that I could purchase for use on my site!

So i bid.

And I waited…because out of the search query that I had, something like:

correspondance letters -book -”correspondance set” -”correspondance school” - course

The auctions at the time were like 4 days out.

So I watched and waited…

I was outbid on a couple, I looked into my wallet, and outbid them. And waited.

I am in college, and have alot of things going on with that and work, so I dont have all day to sit and watch my ebay auctions expire. So I was outbid and lost like 8 auctions.

Frustrated, I looked into the times when the last bid was placed … Out of the 8 auctions that I bid on, 6 were won in the last 5 seconds, 4 of which were won in the last 3.

So I put in another bid on a different auction, and considered the time it takes to bid:

1. Click bid now
2. load the page
3. type in the amount to bid and submit
4. load the page
5. confirm that you in fact want to bid this amount
6. find out if you are the winning bidder or not! - hooray!

Just the load times take at least 5 seconds, which means that these people had to start inside of the last 10-20 seconds of the auction. This means they planned to, or just happened to come across these auctions at the last second (literally).

Then I remembered, that back in the day a couple ebay sniper services popped up around the intarwebernet… I thought that ebay had stopped this foolishness and shananigan-ery by their 3-5 step process of confirmations, etc. I guess not.

I am really sick and tired of using ebay, only to be sniped at the last second, and I wonder if there is anything that I can do about it…???

Probably not I am assuming.

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