Author: Ben

Folklore History Language

Scare Bears

Post author By Ben
Post date April 26, 2023
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Whatever you do, don’t say—

Tags bears, blunts and hennessy, China, North Korea

Grapevine's Atlas History Language

Five Hundred Years of Orange

Post author By Ben
Post date November 14, 2022
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Foxes are red, horses are blue.

Tags blue, color, english, france, guys it's not as boring as it sounds i promise, ireland, Netherlands, orange

Grapevine's Atlas History

The Fall of Sikkim

Part six: Chogyal gone.

Tags Chogyal, india, sikkim, the word "chogyal" is my #1 predictive text suggestion

Grapevine's Atlas History

The Battle for the Soul of Sikkim

Post author By Ben
Post date October 2, 2022
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Part five: The snake and the storm.

Tags india, let's fuck up a deal, sikkim

Grapevine's Atlas History

The Chogyal’s Gambit

Part four: More milk, more problems.

Tags india, international superconflict, sikkim

Grapevine's Atlas History

The King and Queen of Sikkim

Post author By Ben
Post date August 20, 2022
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Part three: Wedding bells and drums of war.

Tags Chogyal, india, sikkim, Top 10 worst years to get married

Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The American Queen of Sikkim

Post author By Ben
Post date July 26, 2022
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Part two: The 22-year-old New Yorker who became Himalayan royalty. A real riches-to-different-riches story.

Tags Darjeeling, himalayas, one-upping everyone at the country club by becoming a himalayan monarch, sikkim, South Asia

Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The Last Chogyal of Sikkim

Post author By Ben
Post date July 22, 2022
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Part one: The lost kingdom of the Himalayas.

Tags himalayan morpheus and his nazi friends, himalayas, india, sikkim

Geography Grapevine's Atlas United States

The Best-known Breasts of the West

Post author By Ben
Post date March 28, 2022
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This Women’s History Month: Who was Mollie, and why are her nipples all over Utah?

Tags mantle mammaries, mollies nipple, what a butte

Grapevine's Atlas Language

Grass Mud Horse Fuck Your Mother

Post author By Ben
Post date February 11, 2022
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This is the Chinese government’s least favorite Peruvian ungulate.

Tags Ai weiwei, alpaca, censorship, China, Hong Kong, IKEA, lufsig, motherfucker, The Great Firewall