Stories by benbreen

How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield

Leonardo Da Vinci's “Scuba” Suit

Quipu

An Atlas of Fantasy

Method Observed in Transfusing the Bloud Out of One Animal into Another (1666)

18th century route map from Delhi to Kandahar

Why is the Iranian government opening the world’s biggest bookstore?

The Victorians had the same concerns about technology as we do

Secrets of the London Library

How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation

The Whole Rigmarole: Ben Johnson Bares All

Shakespeare: Actor, Playwright, Social Climber

Help Me to Die, O Lord

How to Interpret an Eighteenth-Century Manuscript (2012)

Raw and Cooked

The Strange History of Microfilm

Making and Knowing (Fake) Coral

How DNA Traced the Ashkenazic Jews to Northeastern Turkey

A Scribal and Illuminated Rebus?

Dancers and Diplomats: NYC Ballet in Moscow, October 1962 (2014)

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