The NYPD beekeeper vacuums up a swarm of bees on a hot dog stand in Times Square.
The Curious in Ecstasy or Shoelaces, by Louis François Charon, 1815. Satire of English fascination with South African–born Saartjie Baartman, who was exhibited under the name Hottentot Venus. The British Museum, London.
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To avoid the wrath of his lover’s father in Poland, Tadeusz Kościuszko went to America via France in 1776, later helping the colonists win the Battle of Saratoga and construct fortifications at West Point. At the end of the war, he was given U.S. citizenship and the army title of brigadier general.
France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Lapham’s
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Jill Lepore
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States. More