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centuries of history. We took a Dustbuster to the place and sucked up all kinds
of good stuff: Alexander the Great's cross-dressing habits, the wretched life of
European peasants, the madness of Dutchmen, it's all here. And just to be party
poopers, all our stories are fully referenced so you can go verify these things
for yourselves. Or even (gasp!) read more. Here are our most recent articles;
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Most Recent Columns
 Pilgrims: Grave Robbers And Fashion Platespublished 11/27/2005The usual depiction of the first thanksgiving, bolstered by nearly a century of elementary school construction paper projects, includes happy Wampanoag Indians and brightly smiling Pilgrims in drab, black clothing with outlandish buckles on their shoes. It's all nonsense. First in a four part series. Read the article Freud and Cocaine -- The Dealpublished 10/19/2002What do you get when you cross a famous personage, high minded ambition and cocaine? No, it's not Noella Bush. It's a tale of love and self-medication in Europe at the turn of the last century. Read the article The Amazing Electric Telegraphpublished 5/30/2002Ben Franklin cooks turkeys with it, French scientists abuse clergymen with it, but no one has a brilliant use for electricity until Samuel Morse comes up with a scheme for keeping messages safe from prying European eyes. Voila, the telegraph is born, and with it an age of hype and disappointment! Part 1 in our series on the telegraph. Read the article |
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