quote [ Brooklyn?s Fulton Street Mall is a treasure trove for the urban explorer. At first glance, the shopping precinct of some two hundred stores in downtown Brooklyn looks like it has seen better days. Low rent retail, cheap costume jewellery, mobile phone accessories, knock off perfume and factory outlets crowd sidewalks filled with street vendors. ]

quote [ Rail riders past and present leave messages for each other, but not the ones you?ve probably heard about. ]

quote [ That?s a lot of lost loot. ]

quote [ For centuries, inventors have sought to create machines that could run forever without any external source of energy. These so-called ?perpetual motion machines? were considered the holy grail of engineering, as they promised a solution to all energy problems. ]

quote [ In 1840, British architect George Wightwick published a world history of architecture in the Romantic mode, inviting readers to enter a vast garden where Buddhist iconography rubs shoulders with Greek temples and Egyptian pyramids gaze upon Gothic cathedrals. His intended audience? Idle women. Matthew Mullane revisits this visionary but ultimately unpopular text, revealing the legacy of attempts to gatekeep the realms of imagination and fantasy pertaining to the built environment. ]

quote [ The late 19th century saw a massive boom in newspaper publishing, especially in cities like New York, Chicago, and London. Rising literacy rates, rapid urbanization, and cheaper paper all contributed to a surge in public demand for daily news. To keep pace, newspapers had to print faster and in greater volume, placing immense pressure on compositors who still set type by hand. ]

quote [ In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the groundwork for the services available today ]

quote [ The genre is poorly documented, so I'm still occasionally coming across new leads. If you know of any other examples of vintage anti-communist comics anywhere on the internet (or in real life), please drop me a note. ]

quote [ As the story goes, Old Tom Parr was relatively healthy for being 152 until a visit to noxious, polluted London in 1635 cut his long life short. Katherine Harvey investigates the early modern claims surrounding this supercentarian and the fraudulent longevity business that became his namesake in the 19th century. ]

quote [ A complex history weaves along the Trail of Tears to connect Eufaula, Alabama, with its namesake in Oklahoma.  ]