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POLITICS: In 1868, a Wild Fraud to Dwarf Today’s Political Sleaze
Photo from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Thanks again to our friends at the Bloomberg "Echoes" financial history blog for running this item first on June... Read more
Great Tower for London
Paris got the Eiffel Tower in 1889. Within months, a competitor in London was being planned. It didn't quite happen - but came very close indeed. Sir Edward Watkin, managing... Read more
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The Second Amendment and Self-Defense
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto. The Second Amendment is a controversial issue in America today. Incidents of gun violence are common in cities across the... Read more
The 27 June 2012 by Realizingresonance
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The Conundrum of the Ninth Amendment
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto. The convention to craft the American Constitution ended without the inclusion of a declaration of rights. Charles Pinckney o... Read more
The 11 June 2012 by Realizingresonance
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Culinary Slapstick
Bacon and eggs made entirely with jelly from a 1769 recipeI recently had a conversation with a television producer about some of the joke recipes included at th... Read more
The 10 June 2012 by Historicfood
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“bloody Ban” Tarleton
Those who have read any of my books (written either as Emery Lee or as Victoria Vane) already know that I use a number of real historical characters in my... Read more
The 17 June 2012 by Authoremerylee
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Relieving Men's Temptations
When we look at the history of fashion, it is dictated by social classes, morals and values of the time. I am fascinated by the forward and backwards thinking o... Read more
The 18 June 2012 by Slvintage
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Beautiful Thing of the Day: Map of the Maine Coastline from 1884 (and) Bald...
Maine’s coast, if you stretched it out in a straight line, would extend farther than the widest point of the United States. Fingers of jagged rocks and inlets,... Read more
The 25 June 2012 by Thewilderthings
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More Viagra In Your Marmalade Sir?
Or would you prefer it in your pie or cake?Orchis italica - a possible candiate for the satyrion of antiquity?In my last two posts I described some historical... Read more
The 27 June 2012 by Historicfood
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Domestic Drones and the Fourth Amendment
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, son of Presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas, has proposed legislation that would limit... Read more
The 19 June 2012 by Realizingresonance
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