Stories by benbreen

All Change At Maggs Brothers

The contest between colonists and seafaring Indians for the American coast

Pseudo-Kufic: Renaissance Imitations of Arabic Script (2010)

The Immigration Iliad

Amazonia, 1952: On finding objects recovered from a Pan Am plane crash (2012)

Early 20th Century Technocracy Movement

The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Palaces Made Out of Grain

Clouds Over Cuba: Cuban Missile Crisis and What Might Have Been [video] (2012)

The Exotic Taste of Rice

Trail layout for D3

Judging a Book by its Cover

Annotations in very early printed books

“Dissected Maps” Were the First Jigsaw Puzzles

Mummified Hand from Yorkshire May Be Last Hand of Glory in Existence

A Postal Treasure Trove: the Brienne archive of 17th century letters

Beards of Belonging

It's Time to Start Talking About Geoengineering

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape (2010)

The Cult of Jurassic Park (2011)

The Geography of Radionavigation and the Politics of Intangible Artifacts (2014) [pdf]

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