I Didn’t Know That!
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I Didn’t Know That!
Untold stories, unseen twists, unheard angles—That fact is stranger than fiction, is no mere truism. It’s a, well, fact. History is often seen as a drab retelling of drab events from times we have nothing to do with today. Truth is, it’s a fascinating cross-hatch of butterfly effects and domino line...
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Ohio, Allahabad, Airmail
For some intriguing albeit seemingly unrelated background, we’ll start with America. The year is 1910, seven years since Orville Wright’s first flight...
St. Vitus’ Dance—An Orgy of Death
In the summer of 1518 somewhere in Strasbourg, Alsace (in modern France), a certain Frau Troffea broke into a spontaneous impassioned dance that would...
A Nuremberg Story
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to an eight-year-old named Vanya and she recounted to me a story from her fifth-grade English textbook. This quic...