Stories by benbreen

Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine

British Library crowdsourcing translation of a 13th-century sword inscription

Aztec Mexico (2007)

The Elmore Leonard Story

A 17th-Century Woman Artist’s Butterfly Journey

The British Library Puts Over 1M Images in the Public Domain

How the Iran Deal Affects Ordinary People’s Lives in Iran

Friendly Robots of the Soviet Union (2014)

Alien Nuclear Wars Might Be Visible from Earth

Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38

The First Animated Feature Film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)

Is Nuance Overrated?

Via handwriting analysis, scholar discovers unknown Magna Carta scribe

Parable of the Boy and the Steam Engine (2014)

The Afterlife of Peru's Mummies

Speak, Memory

The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov (1965)

The Rediscovery of the Clitoris: French Medicine and the Tribade, 1570-1620 (1997)

Why Yale Library decided to preserve 3000 horror and exploitation movies on VHS

When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece

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