Stories by benbreen

Swifter Than a Bird Flies: An Account of Riding the First Passenger Train

Protein analysis finds animal source of bog body clothes

Revisited: Alan Watts, “This Is It”

Farming Invented Twice in the Middle East, Genomes Study Reveals

“Unlimiting the Bounds”: The Panorama and the Balloon View

How to Make an Inca Mummy

Complex view of Islam found in poetry of Iran, Stanford researcher shows

Antidote to War: Pierre de Coubertin revives the Olympic games (1896)

Palm Trees and Potions: On Portuguese Pharmacy Signs

Behind the Tower: New Histories of the UT Tower Shootings

Massive Sulcata tortoises have become a popular American family pet

Recipes for Curing Syphilis from Colonial Mexico

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

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