June 09, 2015
Confidence Codes
Scam artists from South Asia and Africa have been known for years by their colonial penal-code numbers.
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June 05, 2015
The Rest Is History
A Bronze Age teenager hits the road, a magazine catalogs London’s prostitutes, and every character in Charles Dickens’ world gets a television show.
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May 29, 2015
The Rest Is History
A CIA agent files his expense reports, Napoleon reconsiders his marriage options, and Ken Burns tears up the dance floor.
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May 22, 2015
The Rest Is History
Two missing engravings leave everyone a suspect, the allure of the masculine astronaut, and the house that built Gatsby is for sale.
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May 21, 2015
By Reason of Insanity
The first successful use of the insanity plea was a high-profile murder trial that riveted antebellum America.
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May 15, 2015
The Rest Is History
Female philosophers left out of the canon, a memoir saved by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and a gruesome medieval discovery under a Paris supermarket.
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May 07, 2015
The Rest Is History
The long-lost love of Vladimir Lenin, abandoned insane asylums, and the stuffed-animal collection of a literary legend.
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May 07, 2015
Delayed Reaction
Why didn’t the sinking of the Lusitania cause the United States to enter more quickly into the war?
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May 06, 2015
Alternative Medicines
For hundreds of years, medical quacks have offered what science could not—the promise of perfect health.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.