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Map Attack

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Nathan

On the map of the countries surrounding Oz from the Tik-Tok of Oz endpapers, L. Frank Baum included places from his non-Oz fantasies, including the as-yet-unpublished King Rinkitink that would become Rinkitink in Oz two years later. Most of these had already … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, bandits, beavers, boboland, chick the cherub, coregos, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ev, fairy beavers, hightown, hiland, international wizard of oz club, isle of phreex, james e. haff, jinxland, john dough, john dough and the cherub, king ato, king rinkitink, loland, mifkets, mo, nome kingdom, nomes, nonestic ocean, octagon isle, ozma of oz, palace of romance, pingaree, pirates, pirates in oz, princess jacquelin, regos, rinkitink in oz, ruprecht the castaway king, scoodlers, the emerald city of oz, the road to oz, the scalawagons of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tales of yot, tik-tok of oz, valley of romance, vegetable kingdom | Leave a comment

War Between the States of Being

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Nathan

Erica Olivera’s presentation on Theosophy and its influence on L. Frank Baum at the latest OzCon included some information on the four kingdoms, those of mineral, vegetable, animal, and human. The animal-vegetable-mineral division is part of general knowledge, as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Animals, Biology, Characters, Christianity, Evolution, Greek Philosophy, History, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Snobbery, Theosophy | Tagged angels, aristotle, carl linnaeus, charles darwin, cowardly lion, creationism, dick tater, dorothy gale, elementals, erica olivera, great chain of being, helena blavatsky, hierarchy, immortals, kingdoms, mangaboos, march of progress, minerals, morality, nome king, nomes, orthogenesis, paracelsus, plants, prince bobo, racial evolution, racism, return to oz, rinkitink in oz, scarecrow, taxonomy, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tottenhots, transformation, twenty questions, vegetable kingdom, zoology | Leave a comment

Mangaboos and More

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Nathan

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz isn’t one of my favorite Oz books, perhaps because the Emerald City seems less welcoming than usual. And after a journey as dark as the one in the rest of the book, where the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged andrew heller, boboland, braided man, celebrating ozma the silver jubilee issue, dama fruit, dorothy and the wizard in oz, gargoyles, jay delkin, land of naught, mangaboos, melody grandy, mermaids, nome king, nomes, oziana, pyramid mountain, rachel heller, ruggedo in oz, scott dickerson, sherwood smith, subterranea, the disenchanted princess of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the giant horse of oz, the mysterious palace of voe, the seven blue mountains of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius, tizzland, trouble under oz, valley of voe, vegetable kingdom, wizard of oz, xenia joy, zim greenleaf | 3 Comments

The Science of Oz

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Nathan

While there have been attempts to explain the science in series like Star Trek and Star Wars, and even something called The Science of Discworld (although I believe that actually is more about the science of OUR world, using a … Continue reading →

Posted in Magic Items, Oz | Tagged dorothy and the wizard in oz, education pills, forbidden tube, gaulau, glinda, glinda of oz, gravity, hiergargo, horners, john dough and the cherub, l. frank baum, ozma of oz, professor wogglebug, queen coo-ee-oh, quox, radium, robots, science, science fiction, shaggy man, skeezers, square-meal tablets, star trek, star wars, the master key, the patchwork girl of oz, the science of discworld, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, vegetable kingdom | 20 Comments

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