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Our top most unusual collection items(blogs.bl.uk)
15 points by benbreen 4y ago|0 comments
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Cambridge University study finds Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian(bbc.com)
38 points by benbreen 4y ago|29 comments
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“A sword was seen in the sky”: A true and wonderful narrative (1763)(publicdomainreview.org)
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Robert Caro, the Art of Biography No. 5 (2016)(theparisreview.org)
1 points by benbreen 4y ago|0 comments
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A Museum in Rome Narrates Italian History Through Cookbooks and Kitchenware(smithsonianmag.com)
50 points by benbreen 5y ago|9 comments
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The Sutton Hoo lyre and the music of the Silk Road (2021)(cambridge.org)
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Plutonium and poetry: Where Trinity and Oppenheimer's reading habits met (2021)(discover.lanl.gov)
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by benbreen 5y ago
Persepolis wasn’t in great condition when I went but it also wasn’t a shambles. There’s a gift shop, guards, and a reconstruction of part of the palace, and a lot of tourists. Also a small set of offices for archaeologists. I’m a profession
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Wanderwort(en.wikipedia.org)
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by benbreen 5y ago
Interesting! I went five years ago and didn’t see it there. It’s a great idea though. Did you go more recently or did we just miss it? The nearby Naqsh-e Rostam (tombs of Darius and Xerxes among other things) was also stunning: https:&#x2F
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The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers(newyorker.com)
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Documenting Drugs: The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz(publicdomainreview.org)
32 points by benbreen 5y ago|2 comments
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A Botanical Mystery Solved, After 146 Years(atlasobscura.com)
52 points by benbreen 5y ago|3 comments
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When Mongols Set Out to Conquer the World, There Was One Limiting Factor: Grass(historynet.com)
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Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)(publicdomainreview.org)
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Pharmacology(lareviewofbooks.org)
29 points by benbreen 5y ago|0 comments
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Some Like It Fraught: How Billy Wilder Survived the Twentieth Century(bookforum.com)
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Stanislav Grof Interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann, Big Sur, California (1984)(maps.org)
70 points by benbreen 5y ago|35 comments
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What did the ancient Babylonians discern in the skies above?(psyche.co)
21 points by benbreen 5y ago|5 comments
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Why Would Two Ordinary People Steal a $160M Willem de Kooning Painting?(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by benbreen 5y ago|0 comments
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Turin Papyrus Map(en.wikipedia.org)
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Rome’s New Cooking Museum Invites Visitors to Feast with Their Eyes(hyperallergic.com)
27 points by benbreen 5y ago|6 comments
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Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch (1596–1633)(publicdomainreview.org)
13 points by benbreen 5y ago|1 comments
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Pólya Urn Model(en.wikipedia.org)
59 points by benbreen 5y ago|3 comments
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Mummification in the Mesolithic(cambridge.org)
9 points by benbreen 5y ago|0 comments
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Cosmopolitan Railway(en.wikipedia.org)
43 points by benbreen 5y ago|16 comments
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Boiling Oil, Red-Hot Irons, 26-Second Amputations: How Surgery Evolved(nytimes.com)
4 points by benbreen 5y ago|0 comments
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Manhattan Phoenix review: epic history of how New York was forged by fire(theguardian.com)
12 points by benbreen 5y ago|0 comments
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A Native American Provenance Enigma(uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com)
2 points by benbreen 5y ago|0 comments
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Keeping Time at Stonehenge(cambridge.org)
29 points by benbreen 5y ago|5 comments

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