quote [ Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax?s basement. ]

quote [ Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is ?perhaps the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history still in private hands,? the seller says ]

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quote [ In the summer of 1817, a mysterious creature was seen swimming in the harbor of Gloucester and along the coast of Cape Ann. Eyewitnesses described it as a gigantic, serpent-like animal, its long body marked by a series of humps rising and falling above the water. ]

quote [ What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp paper, and newly improved postal networks. Allan Johnson investigates the forgotten history and (still living) world of mail-order magic. ]

quote [ But to you. My friends. My compatriots. We remember this website. Witty. Smart. And, yes, a bit vulgar. But, when the chips were down, really there was no smarter group of people to go to in a crisis. ]

quote [ In the early 19th century, England produced an animal so enormous that it became a national curiosity. Named the Craven Heifer, this extraordinary cow achieved fame as the largest ever exhibited in England. ]

quote [ As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-snatching trade led by ?resurrection men? and reformers sought alternatives to the toxic urban graveyards and their pestilent fumes. ]

quote [ Railroad photography helped sell an ?empty? American West?carefully framing out the people already living there. ]

quote [ In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson investigates the source and manifestation of this delusion, and finds a psychological idiom that once carried the weight of what could otherwise not be said. ]