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Why do you post here when no one cares? Have you ever had anyone from this
group enter your little contest other than as a joke on you?

"musea" <tomhendricks474@cs.com> wrote in message
news:1118854635.140288.110520@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> The answer to, and winner (if any) for,
> our last contest question of:
>
> But first:
> NOW featured on the Musea website -
> on our contents page, "A Year Of Quizzes",
> yes 52 of the most recent contest questions
> and their answers - check them out!
>
> The heyday, of the 'dime novel'  (billed
> as 'books for the million') was
> from 1860-1910. "Never before or
> since has book  publishing held a larger
> share of the gross national product. The first
> mass-produced entertainment industry of
> importance, it stood in the same
> relation to the average young American
> as TV does today... Beadle and Adams alone,
> during the 35 years or so of its existence,
> published more than 7,500 novels, and its
> competitors were not fair behind."
> ("Eight Dime Novels" intro by E. F. Bleiler)
> One author by himself sold
> 250,000,000 copies. Name him.
>
> WAS: Horatio Alger Jr. (But collectors
> beware, old copies from around the turn
> of the century are appetizing food for bugs!
> I've learned the hard way that they'll destroy
> your book spines for the glue!)
>
>
> I had one correct ineligible response
> but no winner.
> The rest of you showed NO PLUCK AT ALL!
>
> I don't
> dumb down,
> so please
> wise up.
>
> Now on to a new Q.:
> Win a copy of my NEW CD
> CALLED '30'!!!!!! -
> (NEW PRIZE!!!)
> if you
> are the first to e-mail me at
> tomhendricks474@cs.com
> with the correct answer
> to this art question*:
>
> Willard Metcalf was one of the great
> American Impressionists.
> And like many other US artists he went to
> Paris to study. In March 1888 he submitted a work to
> the Fr. Salon jury. You've heard of them in reading about
> the beginning of Impressionism and how those painting
> pioneers had to fight the conservative Salon.
> Anyway Metcalf was not ony accepted for exhibition,
> but he won an Honorable Mention, a rare distinction fot
> the work of an American Painter, AND his painting was
> hung "ON THE LINE".  What does the term "ON THE LINE"
> mean?
>
>
> Good luck puzzlers!
>
> *Fine print. If you post your answer on a
> newsgroup instead of sending it to me,
> you are disqualified from all contests
> for spoiling the fun for others. Please play
> fair - and have fun.
>
>
> Tom Hendricks, ed. of Musea
> the 13 year old monthly art/media zine.
> http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com
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>
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