Whale catches runaway train.

The Dead Toreador, by Édouard Manet, c. 1864. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
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According to the twelfth-century-bc Judicial Papyrus of Turin, Pharaoh Ramses III was assassinated in a conspiracy led by one of his wives. The trial documents state that thirty-eight people were condemned to death for the killing. The pharaoh’s body was not believed to betray any signs of violence until 2012, when a team of researchers analyzing CT scans discovered that his throat had been slit—straight through to the vertebrae.
Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Lapham’s
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Lance Morrow
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money. More