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wow, what a spectacular word!

Disassembly of a 1971 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. Sadly a tiny plastic gear broke and I can't find a replacement. I'll be parting this out, hopefully helping someone else and restoring their own Lettera 32.

Absorbing OSR modules and touring through the Appendix N, I started a notes doc to track the many words I had never encountered before. Going to start to share those here. First, from Harley Stroh's Sailors on the Starless Sea for DCC:

menhir - a tall upright stone of a kind erected in prehistoric times in western Europe; also known as a standing stone, orthostat, or lith

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