Woman announces she is divorcing her pirate ghost husband.
William Pitt the Younger riding on the back of George III while surveying the French squadron, 1803. © Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris / Bridgeman Images.
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In ancient Indian espionage networks, a sattri was an orphan-spy trained from youth in palmistry, magic, omens, and augury.
Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Lapham’s
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Joseph J. Ellis
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us. More