Puzzle: Vila Real de Santo António, Algarve, Portugal


Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 51.12cm x 66.52cm
Producer: Big Ben, MB Puzzles
Notes: Vila Real de Santo Antonio was erected at great speed, in only two years time (construction took place between 1774 and 1776). The Marquis of Pombal was responsible for its planning. He designed the town in a Pombaline orthogonal grid. In a pioneering technique, entire buildings were prefabricated in pieces outside the city, and then transported to their final destination …

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Puzzle: New Palace Gardens, Warwickshire, England


Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 51.12cm x 66.52cm
Producer: Big Ben, MB Puzzles
Notes: Warwickshire is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon. Even today, road signs at the county boundary describe Warwickshire as “Shakespeare’s County”. The county has also produced other literary figures such as George Eliot (from Nuneaton), Rupert Brooke (from Rugby), and Michael Drayton from Hartshill.

Much of western Warwickshire, including that area now forming part …

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Book: Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs

Title: Naked Lunch
Author: William S. Burroughs
Source: Veddma library
ISBN: 0-586-08560-2
Avaialble online

Notes: In the words of the author, “This book spill off the page in all directions, kaleidoscope of vistas, medley of tunes and street noises, farts and riot yipes and the slamming steel shutters of commerce, screams of pain and pathos and screams plain pathic, copulating cats …

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Puzzle: Fairy Tales


Size: 54 large pieces
Dimensions: 38 cm x 61 cm
Producer: Djeco, Discovery Puzzle series, 4-6 years old
Notes: All around one big picture in the centre, lots of things to find! Start by putting all the pieces of the puzzle together, then have fun finding items from the border in the picture in the centre. [Puzzle box]

It took me about 5-10 minutes to assemble in a leisurely pace. I think it …

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Puzzle: The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci


Size: 1000 pieces, 1 missing
Dimensions: 51 cm x 73.5 cm
Producer: Gospel Puzzle, #98-10
Notes: The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L’Ultima Cena) is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d’Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that …

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