December 2009
26 posts
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Sneak, snake, snuck. →
November 2009
24 posts
Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector →
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History of Musée Mechanique: Twenty-Five Cents of... →
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Film Noir Photos: Not Superstitious, just... →
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Official Site of the Navajo Code Talkers →
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Trading Women’s Rights for Political Power →
NYT op-ed
Letters of Note: I was ready to sink into the... →
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Sedlec Ossuary →
Church of Bones, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
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Revolutionary War hero becomes honorary US citizen →
Casimir Pulaski!
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Bolaño Inc. →
Roberto Bolaño is being sold in the U.S. as the next Gabriel García Márquez, a darker, wilder, decidedly un-magical paragon of Latin American literature. But his former friend and fellow novelist, Horacio Castellanos Moya, isn’t buying it.
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A Dream
by Jorge Luis Borges
In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very...
– A Dream : The New Yorker
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Fears That Lack of Sick Leave Helps Spread Swine... →
This just in: Poor people don’t get paid when they don’t go to work.
Dissection - Lapham’s Quarterly →
Notes and Thoughts from a Class in Human Dissection
Prior to the advent of the portable tape recorder, naturalists struggled with...
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Legacy of the Leo Frank lynching →
More than 90 years later, his descendants still struggle with unanswered questions.