September 21, 2020
2020:
Rooster fined 166 euros for early morning crowing in Italian town.
1474:
Rooster questioned for laying egg, perhaps at the behest of Satan.
2020:
Exoplanet revealed to be nothing but a large cloud of dust.
1903:
Supposed irrigation canals on Mars are merely optical illusions.
2020:
A fifty-pence piece celebrates Brexit without Oxford’s punctuation mark.
1897:
A monument remembers the Battle of Trenton sans punctuation.
2019:
Seal helps stop an alleged international drug gang.
1918:
Dog bites man, stops robbery.
2019:
Radical life extensionists trust science to cure death.
1786:
A doctor mines the habits of history’s long-lived for tips.
2019:
Voters unable to buy milkshakes to throw at Nigel Farage.
1885:
Voters throw rotten eggs at Queen Victoria’s son-in-law.
2019:
Canadian prime minister eats chocolate, must apologize.
1896:
Canadian members of Parliament work late, sing songs, throw paper.
2019:
Thieves steal water from Canadian icebergs.
c. 96:
Rome steels itself for the possibility of “puncturers.”
Roundtable
Wheat, historical toilet paper, and Viking genes. More
Roundtable
On the power and privilege of the written word in the Middle Ages. More
Roundtable
Purported hearing cures, from mail-order cons to prenatal vitamins. More