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Déjà Vu 06/04/08: I ran across this passage in a book1 recently: The Marines were unable to suppress ________'s rebellion, and as months ...
100-Year-Old Lightbulb Still Burns 05/31/08: A lightbulb in a fire station in Livermore, CA has been burning more or less continuously since 1901. They say ...
Ficciones 05/24/08: My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some ...
The Ancient Indus Valley 02/10/08: This is great site for anyone interested in seeing what south Asia looked like circa 1900-1920. Actually it's a good ...
The Return of the Airship 02/05/08: I used to think it was just me, but glancing through the Slashdot thread that led me to this article ...
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle 01/31/08: I haven't had a chance to read much lately, I've been busy writing, which is good I guess, but if ...
Photo of Babe Ruth with the Red Sox 01/04/08: Awesome old glass plate photo of Babe Ruth, Bill Carrigan, Jack Barry and Del Gainer of the Boston Red Sox ...
Stunning Temples Secretly Carved Out Below… 12/15/07: Next time you think your hobby is occupying too much of your free time, consider this guy's project, which is ...
Tombs of the Grand Masters of the Knights … 12/14/07: Nothing gets the conspiracy fan tongues wagging like the Knights of Malta (the Knights Templar might be the one exception ...
Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit at … 12/14/07: There's really nothing that takes you back to childhood like the romance of searching for pirate treasure. Well, maybe that ...
BibliOdyssey: Dagbok East India Trading Co… 11/08/07: BibliOdyssey has dug up another stellar set of illustrations. And there's going to be BibliOdyssey book, so the nerdery can ...
Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century 11/08/07: Just when you think the internet might have actually overlooked a thing or two, you stumble across something like this: ...
The Southern Foodways Alliance 10/18/07: One of Corrinne's friends works for the organization, which is apparently quite well known, though it was new to me. ...
Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a … 10/16/07: My family is from the Budapest area and left around the time of World War I. I was in a ...
The Professor and the Madman 10/15/07: The subtitle encapsulates this on quite nicely: "A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary." ...
Petersburg 10/15/07: The famous political thinker and essayist Isaiah Berlin described Bely as "a man of strange and unheard-of insights - magical ...
Guns, Germs, and Steel 10/15/07: One of the most original ideas I've come across in recent memory, erudite and extremely well written for a "popular" ...
The Rings of Saturn 10/15/07: From the Independent's obituary for W. G. Sebald: "All of Max Sebald's books were, in their own fastidious way, ghost ...
Death of an Adventure Traveler 10/10/07: A great little ruminative essay from Rolf Potts (of Vagabonding.net fame) about a burmese refuge, travel writing and a good ...
Through a Lens, Darkly 10/10/07: A very long and well written Vanity Fair piece about the legacy and personal toll on the children who were ...