Category: History

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Art Garden-path Guide to Everything History

Just Like Mummy Used to Make

The garden-path guide to artistic corpse pulverization.

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Culture Grapevine's Atlas History United States

Liberty Measles

French fries and the disappearance of German-American culture.

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History United States

Counting Counties

The history of the bizarre subatomic particles that make up our states.

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Flags Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

One of Us Has to Change

Did two countries show up to Hitler’s Olympics wearing the same flag?

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The Exile

Part five: History repeats.

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The Emperor

Part four: Pathological corsicophilia.

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The President

Part three: Papa Bok.

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The Soldier

Part two: The radio tutor’s power play.

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The Last Emperor of Africa

Part one: Wishful thinking.

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Christmas Culture Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

Cold as Dickens

An old, public domain painting of a horse-drawn carriage moving through snow-covered England

Dickensian London is iconic, but its plentiful snowdrifts bear little resemblance to the modern city. Is this artistic license? Or are Tiny Tim’s environs evidence of a centuries-long frosty period that gave us Frankenstein, witchcraft, and America?